The physical property of magnetism has historically been associated with metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt; however, graphite – an organic mineral made up of stacks of individual carbon sheets – ...

Atomic vacancies have a strong impact in the mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties of graphene-like materials. By artificially generating isolated vacancies on a graphite surface and ...

Physicists in Uruguay and Brazil have succeeded in synthesising large quantities of magnetic graphite for the first time. The material made by Álvaro Mombrú and colleagues at the Universidad de la ...

Researchers from the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) and the University of the Republic (Udelar), in Montevideo, Uruguay, have managed to transform a pure organic and non-metallic element – ...

Graphite, the soft material found inside ordinary pencils, may seem simple, but scientists have discovered that it can behave in remarkable ways when examined at the atomic level. Researchers from the ...

(Nanowerk News) University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of Science researchers have shown that if you apply a strong magnetic field to the honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms in graphite, positive and ...

The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in ...