Twenty-five years on from the discovery of C 60, the outstanding properties and potential applications of the synthetic carbon allotropes — fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene — overwhelmingly ...

Carbon, one of the most versatile elements known, occurs in a multitude of allotropes that exhibit a wide array of physical and chemical properties. The diversity of carbon’s bonding—ranging from sp² ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Carbon is the fourth-most-abundant element in the universe and, depending on the arrangements of carbon atoms, takes on a wide variety of forms, called allotropes. Carbon ...

Pakistan holds significant potential in harnessing carbon allotropes to address climate change, promote renewable energy, enhance agriculture, and drive sustainable industrial growth. With abundant ...

(Nanowerk News) What holds white, black, and red phosphorus together—and prevents it from falling apart, for example into much-sought-after atomically thin networks and nanowires? This is what German ...

Researchers have taken a novel approach to studying the interaction between certain topological metamaterials and sound wave propagation. Diamond and graphite are two naturally occurring carbon ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Physics and chemistry, as you know, defy common sense. For instance, what is carbon? Is ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 16 The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, ...

Since prehistoric days, humans have been aware of the presence of carbon. When the cave people made a fire, they saw the formation of smoke. The black smoke color is indicatives of carbon particles ...

Sulfur molecules come in many forms called allotropes, from S2 up to S8. The subscript indicates the number of S atoms in the allotrope. We are proposing here a new pathway to S2 formation. With S2 ...