MIT physicists and partners have figuratively turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by detaching five ultrathin chips stacked in a particular request. The subsequent material can then be tuned to show three significant properties previously unheard of in normal graphite. "It is similar to one-quit shopping," says Long Ju, an associate teacher in the MIT Division of Physical Science and head of the work, which is accounted for in Nature Nanotechnology. "For this situation, we never understood that these fascinating things are implanted in graphite." Further, he says, "It is extremely interesting to find materials that can have these