The Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award, in association with Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim, is awarded each year to help the implementation of commercially-viable business proposals from our students, post-doctoral research...

A thriving community for University of Manchester entrepreneurs Last week (Tuesday, 28 January), the University of Manchester’s Innovation Academy hosted its third Founders Network Dinner at the Manchester Museum. This exclusive event brought toget...

In 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester isolated graphene using nothing more than adhesive tape and a lump of graphite. This single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, arranged in a hexagonal pattern, proved to be strong...