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Which chemists introduced the term graphene in 1986?

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graphene: atomic force microscopy — graphene Atomic force microscopy image of water structures that were trapped beneath a sheet of graphene one atom thick.

The term graphene was introduced in 1986 by chemists Hanns-Peter Boehm, Ralph Setton, and Eberhard Stumpp.1

They coined the name by combining the word graphite—which refers to the ordered crystalline form of carbon—with the suffix -ene, a term used in chemistry to denote polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that feature hexagonal, six-sided ring structures.1