9 We had some luck, but not much. Amid the graphite and adhesive gunk in our sample was this pile of graphene layers, including what Jarillo-Herrero said was a tiny patch of single-layer graphene at the bottom left... Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 8 If you're lucky, you'll get some graphene: highly transparent, crystalline shapes with little color compared with the rest of the wafer. That steplike pattern