James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?
Socrates in the City
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The Power of Graphene
Graphene is one atom thick. It's a sheet of carbon atoms that are arranged like chicken wire. The motor spins at 3 million rotations per second. Is there a glove box? No? We can put one in. A teeny, we need... We could. Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a sense. So imagine a single molecule that has four wheels under the... and it's one molecule. And you're telling me it's so small that it can fit across... that 50,000 of them would fit across a human hair?"
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