When researchers set out to rebuild Thomas Edison’s 1879 light bulb, they expected a history lesson, not a materials science surprise. By carefully recreating his carbon filaments and punishing them ...

TL;DR: Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb is typically remembered as a milestone in electrification, not as a precursor to modern quantum materials. Yet by reconstructing that lamp with contemporary ...

A modern scientific team has replicated Thomas Edison’s light bulb experiment and discovered it can produce graphene, a material unknown in his time. Using Raman spectroscopy, researchers confirmed ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University’s James Tour, it ...