Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

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A new form of carbon that rivals diamonds in its hardness, but has an amorphous structure similar to glass, has been produced under ultrahigh pressure in laboratory experiments.

A new form of carbon that is hard enough to indent diamond has been created by a team of researchers from the US and China. The new material, known as ordered amorphous carbon clusters (OACC), is ...

Scientists have discovered a new form of superhard carbon that, unlike diamonds, could have equally strong hardness in all directions.

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom possesses four immediate neighbors, or graphite, where each atom has three ...

A strange form of glassy carbon can go from soft to diamond-hard and back again, depending on the pressure, a new study shows.

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However, unlike diamond and other crystalline forms of carbon, the structure of this new material is not organized in repeating atomic units. It is an amorphous material, meaning that its structure ...

However, unlike diamond and other crystalline forms of carbon, the structure of this new material is not organized in repeating atomic units.

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom possesses four immediate neighbors, or graphite, where each atom has three ...