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Figure 1

Colour photograph of a sticky tape dispenser

© Science and Industry Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Sticky tape dispenser, 2002. This sticky tape was routinely used to clean graphite samples in preparation for microscopy before it became the unlikely centre of a major scientific breakthrough. Donated by Professor Konstantin Novoselov

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/181004/018