Friday night experiments; night science; what smart people do on the weekends; sneaking off—history pivots on these things.
\n\n", "content_hash": "sha256:bc804e3cbb9dcb3a49dd5b349e7fe4d44d1306053de418ce82779cea7ca55dcd" }And, ok, whatever I do, even if I’m doing graphene all the time, I’m thinking, “Ok, what else? What can be used to?” And, usually, it comes out something like late evening or Friday night experiments where you try something very elementary and try to go into one or another direction. And, ninety nine times out of hundred, you do not succeed, but, sometimes there are very simple experiments and very simple discoveries to be made using what is at hand. OK, example, some popular … Not popular but educational experiments, like levitating everything what is around in the lab, which was eventually to emphasize the importance of diamagnatism. We levitated a frog and, later, we did experiments with gecko tape, making the first realistic example of a tape which uses the same mechanism which geckos use to climb walls. And, graphene was within this series of very many failures, but this was a successful one!