New Spin on Graphene Makes It Magnetic

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Submission + - New Spin on Graphene Makes It Magnetic (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by intellitech on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:47PM

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.

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