Graphene sheets

Cornell graduate student Scott Bunch and colleagues found that a single sheet of graphene, a form of carbon atoms in a plane just one atom thick, can be isolated and used as an electromechanical resonator. The material could be useful for weighing atoms and molecules, which have extremely small masses; as a membrane to separate gases or to measure pressure; or for other experiments that call for a very stiff but exceptionally thin and light sheet of material. A single-atom-thick sheets of graphite is termed as graphene. These are basically the thinnest vibrating structures you can have as on today and it's surprising that they're so easy to make!

Source: sciencedaily.comAdded: 22 March 2007