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Nobel Laureate Inaugural Lecture: Random Walk to Graphene

Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU

Co-organised by President's Office and Faculty of Science   Abstract When someone wins a Nobel Prize, people naturally want to know how and why it happened. In this talk, Professor Sir Andre Geim will recount his rather unpredictable path in academia – a story marked by curiosity, wrong turns and a few strokes of good fortune. Graphene itself is deceptively simple: a single layer of carbon atoms, just one atom thick. Yet this unassuming material has revealed a range of extraordinary properties and is often described as a wonder material. Two decades after its advent, graphene still reshapes science. Professor Geim will try to explain, without too much jargon, what makes graphene so special, why it fascinates researchers across disciplines, and how its unique characteristics are beginning to influence modern technologies.