My name is Andre Gime. I was lucky enough to receive the novel prize for physics in 2010 for the advent of graphene, actually for elucidating beautiful properties of this material. If you look around yourself, you'll find out that everything around task has three dimensions. You won't find materials which are two dimensional, and there are reasons for this. The nature of a bits, this kind of materials to occur in nature naturally. And it was believed that those materials can't exist in our universe. So we found about 20 years ago that actually these materials can be, uh, manmade and there is a very large group of materials. Now we count probably about thousands of different materials, so it's kind of a revolution in terms of material signs that we have a completely new class of materials. Those materials are not just siblings of their three dimensional parents, and this attracts a lot of attention and they ask superior to properties of three dimensional counterparts. Graphene is one example completely different from its parent graphite, and there is a lot of fuss about, for the last 20 years, a lot of discoveries of interesting properties and those two dimensional materials gradually diffuse into the industrial space, into industry, use more and more in different products. You probably don't know this, but some people say that you walk five minutes from your office and you will find a gadget to buy, which contains graphene without your actual knowledge. I think people need to know there is a revolution going on. It has happened in condensed metaphysics and now it's happening in material science and industrial application, and the revolution. Name the age of two dimensional materials. We still continue to plate, try to figure out what can be new, done and found. For all my career, I try to find a patch of new grass where there was no tribe of elephants. So with no grass left at all. So many areas of physics, material science, and science in general are populated with many groups. Obviously they compete with each other and I'm very competitive as well, but, and my competition, I try to figure out where there is a new patch of grass. So it's constantly on a lookout. Sometimes it's a miss sometimes, like with the case of graphene and other lucks I had in my life with levitation, with geca tape, with spro and transplant and et cetera, it's a constant search and it's happening now constantly looking for something new.
