Have you heard of the first 2-dimensional material GRAPHENE? Yeah - it sounds like graphite and it practically is graphite but it isn’t.  This material can be used for faster computers (because that’s what corporations want) and it helps quantum mechanics became more complicated (because that’s what physicists want). 

Okay so graphene didn’t win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov did - they were “playing around” with experiments when the “happened to stumble upon” the isolated form of graphene.

Now you’re probably wondering - what’s the REAL kick about graphene? Well it’s about 100 times stronger than steel (move over Superman) and more conductive than copper. You’re looking at applications that involve better t.v.’s and faster computers. sigh. it always comes back to making me dumber.

Anywho - it’s still neat!