Edison may have unknowingly created graphene with his 1879 light bulb

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...
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Edison's 1879 light bulb may have accidentally produced graphene, scientists say

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...
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Edison may have accidentally made graphene with an 1879 light bulb

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...
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Did Edison Make a 'Wonder Material' 125 Years Before Its Official Creation?

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving ...

Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

Edison's 1879 bulb experiments may have unintentionally produced graphene

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...