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The first production of graphene was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This discovery has implications for chemistry and within it for structural chemistry as well.
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Hargittai, I. Graphene 2010. Struct Chem 21, 1151–1154 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-010-9680-0
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