New Spin On Graphene Makes It Magnetic

intellitech writes "A team led by Professor Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene, has shown that electric current can magnetize graphene. The researchers found a new way to interconnect spin and charge by applying a relatively weak magnetic field to graphene and found that this causes a flow of spins in the direction perpendicular to electric current, making a graphene sheet magnetised."

Re:bad summary, interesting article

[oldhack]

You know how people here love to dump on science journos, but the stuff that people submit here seem even worse.