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To: axial who wrote (29555)	3/24/2009 3:59:51 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Thanks Jim. Wikipedia has an easy-reading entry on the subject, complete with a magnified view of "graphene as an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms", here: URL: en.wikipedia.org "Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be viewed as an atomic-scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms and their bonds. The name comes from GRAPHITE + -ENE; graphite itself consists of many graphene sheets stacked together. "The carbon-carbon bond length in graphene is approximately 0.142 nm. Graphene is the basic structural element of some carbon allotropes including graphite, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. It can also be considered as an infinitely large aromatic molecule, the limiting case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons called graphenes." [Cont.'d at URL above] ------