Response from: Gene L. (Check me out!)

This is fascinating, pure materials science. I had somehow missed the news (or forgotten) about the discovery of graphene. I did find out that one of the other promising applications that may exist for this substance is in liquid crystal devices with electrodes made of graphene. I located an article on this, just published in June '08, by Blake, et al. BTW, I used a fairly new search capability, Science.Gov (http://www.science.gov), which is sponsored by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (http://www.osti.gov). It (and several other search tools) allow users to search deep into the web (where Google can't), and into multiple research document databases in a single query. Really helps with ranking, too, as I don't have a lot of free time to sift the results myself. Keep up the great work, folks!