Electrification is the trend in the world of transportation – in the quest for more environmentally sustainable and emission friendly forms of transportation, electric cars and buses have taken all of the headlines. Battery technologies have reached the point where…
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The year is 1991, in Japanese physicist Sumio Ijima’s lab. Taking two graphite electrodes, Ijima applies an electric current, sparking a cloud of carbon gas, vaporizing the tip of the anode. As the gas clears, Ijima sees a layer of…