Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon

Wei Zhang; Qing Liang; Xiujuan Li; Lai-Peng Ma; Xinyang Li; Zhenzhen Zhao; Rui Zhang; Hongtao Cao; Zizhun Wang; Wenwen Li; Yanni Wang; Meiqi Liu; Nailin Yue; Hongyan Liu; Zhenyu Hu; Li Liu; Qiang Zhou; Fangfei Li; Weitao Zheng; Wencai Ren; Meng Zou

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwae211

Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon

Natl Sci Rev. 2024 Jun 17;11(12):nwae211. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwae211. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Authors

Wei Zhang¹, Qing Liang¹, Xiujuan Li², Lai-Peng Ma³, Xinyang Li⁴, Zhenzhen Zhao¹, Rui Zhang², Hongtao Cao², Zizhun Wang¹, Wenwen Li¹, Yanni Wang¹, Meiqi Liu¹, Nailin Yue¹, Hongyan Liu¹, Zhenyu Hu⁵, Li Liu^{5

6}, Qiang Zhou⁴, Fangfei Li⁴, Weitao Zheng¹, Wencai Ren³, Meng Zou²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Electron Microscopy Center, International Center of Future Science, Jilin Provincial International Cooperation Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Clean Energy Materials, Jilin University, China.
² Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, China.
³ Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
⁴ Synergetic Extreme Condition High-Pressure Science Center, State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, China.
⁵ Deep Space Exploration Lab, China.
⁶ Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, China.

Abstract

Natural few-layer graphene is unambiguously identified from the Chang'e-5 lunar soil samples, which serves as a new platform for investigating extraterrestrial bodies.