HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Graphene was discovered in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this in 2010. It is a material made of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice.

Detailed explanation-2: -First isolated at the University of Manchester in 2003 by a team led by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, Graphene is the first single-layer material ever discovered.

Detailed explanation-3: -Konstantin Novoselov, in full Sir Konstantin Sergeyevich Novoselov, (born August 23, 1974, Nizhny Tagil, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Russian-British physicist who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with graphene. He shared the prize with his colleague and former teacher Andre Geim.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although scientists knew one atom thick, two-dimensional crystal graphene existed, no-one had worked out how to extract it from graphite. That was until it was isolated in 2004 by two researchers at The University of Manchester, Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov.

Detailed explanation-5: -The man who first discovered graphene, along with his colleague, Kostya Novoselov, is Andre Geim. Geim studied at the Moscow Physical-technical University and earned his PhD from the Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia.