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Shooting Star Wish Comes True For This Indian Scientist
by Aravindan Neelakandan - Jun 4, 2021 01:08 PM
An artist s impression of the formation of the solar system (NASA)
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It was in the Allende meteorite that Chaitanya Giri and his colleagues had been searching for graphene.
But why graphene? Here is an interesting story.
Making a wish on seeing a shooting star and believing it will come true is a popular custom â perhaps a superstition, yet harmless. But for Dr Chaitanya Giri and his co-workers â a wish on a shooting star actually came true.
It was a wish for a form of carbon â graphene.