See also: Getting to know graphene
Two University of Manchester researchers are to share this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on graphene
Dr Andrei Geim and Dr Konstantin Novoselov are the scientists.
"I'm fine, I slept well. I didn't expect the Nobel Prize this year," said Geim, adding that his plans for the day would not change and he would "muddle on as before".
Graphene is the one atom thick mesh of carbon atoms that shows astonishing electron mobility and may be the eventual route to super-fast electronics - particularly as it is more applicable to planar processing than carbon nanotubes.
The Nobels are valued at £900,000.