One area I was researching was allotropes of carbon. My interest in it
stems from a documentary I saw on TV some months ago on how they made
synthetic diamonds. It was here that I discovered that both graphite &
diamond were both made of the same element carbon, except that they were
different allotropes of carbon.

There are yet other allotropes of carbon. This includes
Buckminsterfullerenes (and the associated buckyballs and buckytubes).

When I researched buckytubes, I came across a reference to paper batteries.
This is way cool dude!

Here's a video on paper batteries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK2IFrXUdl4