"Graphene has been in the limelight these last 15 years, due to its many superlative properties, and graphite was pushed back a little by its one-layer-thick offspring. Mishchenko adds: “We have now come back to this old material. Knowledge gained from graphene research, improved experimental techniques (such as van der Waals assembly technology) and a better theoretical understanding (again from graphene physics), has already allowed us to discover this novel type of the QHE in graphite devices we made.

“Our work is a new stepping stone to further studies on this material, including many-body physics, like density waves, excitonic condensation or Wigner crystallization.”

The Manchester researchers say they now plan to explore all those phenomena and theoretical predictions using the fact that their thin graphite samples are as perfect as materials can be."

So Sir Andre Geim(the Nobel winner in physics)is now focusing in graphite.Is the thin graphite sample they termed "as perfect as can be"from our Zen graphite?Where else can they obtain this perfect gem.No wonder the Zen team was sitting front and center at their latest  new center opening ceremony.