More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

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 in ACS ...

I have occasionally read that incandescent light bulb filaments undergo metal electromigration that eventually causes the filament metal to part company with itself and open, blowing out the bulb. Let ...

As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back ...