Edison may have unknowingly created graphene with his 1879 light bulb

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...
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Scientists Replicated Edison’s 1879 Light Bulb Experiments And Uncovered Something Unexpected

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...
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Twisted light: The Edison bulb has purpose again

Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb. The device is capable of emitting elliptically polarized light, described as "twisted" ...

Edison's 1879 bulb experiments may have unintentionally produced graphene

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS ...