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Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...

An unexpected find During these experiments, Ph.D. student Shihao Zang came across a rod-shaped crystal that he couldn't identify. To the naked eye, it looked like a crystal previously discovered in ...

The salt dissolves in the water. As the water slowly evaporates, the salt can no longer stay dissolved, so it comes out of the water and forms crystals on the paper clip.