Professor Charlie Johnson Makes Big Moves in a Small Science

Johnson, a professor of physics, has a career that has ranged from the basic science of nanomaterials through some very practical applications of them. He has pioneered and commercialized manufacturing techniques that make mass production of graphene for research and other uses possible, continues to pin down the mechanisms underlying the tiny materials’ properties, and has worked to incorporate biology and chemistry with nanotech in ways that could offer big steps forward in everything from health diagnostics to environmental monitoring. Small, it turns out, is getting big…

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