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Andre Geim receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Frida Westholm

 

Andre Geim after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Frida Westholm

 

Andre Geim (second from left) with his wife Dr Irina Grigorieva (far left), daughter Alexandra Geim (middle) and 1985 Nobel Laureate in Physics Klaus von Klitzing (right) after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, 10 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Frida Westholm

 

Andre Geim and Mrs Gunilla Storch at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Andre Geim during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, 9 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Andre Geim after delivering his Nobel Lecture at Aula Magna, Stockholm University, on 8 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Andre Geim delivering his Nobel Lecture at Aula Magna, Stockholm University, on 8 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Andre Geim during the reception at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, 7 December 2010. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Taping of the TV-programme Nobel Minds in the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, 9 December 2010. From left: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Laureates in Physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel Laureate in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa, Laureates in Economic Sciences Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides and Peter A. Diamond. The programme was led by Matt Frei from BBC World News. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Claes Löfgren

 

Andre Geim (left) and Konstantin Novoselov (right) during their interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2010. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2010 Photo: Niclas Enberg

 

The 2010 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2010. Back row, left to right: Nobel Laureates in Physics Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim, Laureates in Economic Sciences Peter A. Diamond, Christopher A. Pissarides and Dale T. Mortensen. Front row, left to right: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck, Nobel Laureate in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Akira Suzuki and Ei-ichi Negishi. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2010 Photo: Orasisfoto

 

Like many Nobel Laureates before him, Andre Geim autographs a chair at Kafé Satir at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2010. Copyright © Scanpix 2010 Photo: Janerik Henriksson/Scanpix

 

Andre Geim (right) and Konstantin Novoselov (left) in their laboratory at the University of Manchester, 2010. Copyright © Nobel Media 2010 Photo: Yana Audas

 

Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms. Photo: Alexander Alus, licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

 

Graphene nanofabric. Scanning electron micrograph of a strongly crumpled graphene sheet on a silicon wafer. Note that it looks just like silk thrown over a surface. Lateral size of the image is 20 microns. Silicon wafer is at the bottom-right corner. Kindly provided by University of Manchester, United Kingdom

 

Researchers use electron-beam lithography to microfabricate graphene devices. Kindly provided by University of Manchester, United Kingdom

 

Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a fallen mesa of graphite. This is the way graphene molecules were "extracted" from bulk graphite. To be reasonably visible in SEM, we show a 10 nm carbon flake (30 layer thick). Kindly provided by University of Manchester, United Kingdom