Playing with the wonder materials

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Ashish Arora in the lab experimenting with laser light. © WWU - Peter Leßmann
Ashish Arora in the lab experimenting with laser light. © WWU - Peter Leßmann
The diameter of a hair, but a hundred thousand times thinner - the products made by Dr. Ashish Arora and his colleagues in the laboratories of the Institute of Physics are difficult to imagine for outsiders. The materials they deal with on a daily basis hold a world record because they consist of a single layer of atoms, the smallest building blocks of nature.

"Wonder materials," Ashish Arora calls them because they are so versatile. And because they have properties that are hard to believe: Graphene, for example, is an almost transparent substance and a hundred times stronger than steel. This one atom thick layer could, for example, carry the weight of a cat. ...
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