Members of the UW MRSEC Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG) collaborated with MRSEC researchers to develop a laboratory method that enables students to synthesize research quality graphene by CVD. The method uses safe, inexpensive equipment and reagents so the synthesis can be performed in a high school classroom. To date, the IEG has led the activity with six groups of middle and high school students during field trips at the University of Wisconsin Discovery Center. A manuscript describing the protocol is currently being prepared for the Journal of Chemical Education.

Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The NSF-sponsored Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center brings together teams of researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to tackle grand challenges in the materials science of liquids and glasses and non-equilibrium magnetism.