The inner space of carbon nanotubes can act as a template for the synthesis of nanodiamond-like ... Polymerization of carbon cage structures to linear diamond-like structures inside carbon nanotubes.

Carbon comes in many different structures, most famously graphite and diamond. Other forms were predicted to exist at extremely high pressures, but now researchers have examined carbon under the ...

Cyclo[18]carbon. Artistic representation of AFM data of a cyclo[18]carbon molecule, with the determined molecular structure fading in. Credit: IBM Research Bonding matters. It explains the difference ...

He and his colleagues created the material by crushing a type of carbon molecule called buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs, between six ultra-hard carbide anvils.At pressures of around 30 ...

Both diamond and graphite are made entirely out of carbon, as is the more recently discovered buckminsterfullerene (a discrete soccer-ball-shaped molecule containing carbon 60 atoms).

Scientists have been playing with pure carbon compounds for centuries, starting with diamond and graphite and now with fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene. One type of 3D geometry has been missing ...

Scientists have created a substance, Q-carbon, that blings even brighter than diamonds, but it’s not for wearing. You’ll take its byproducts as medicine instead.

One interesting thing about Q-carbon is that it's so new, its own discoverers don't make too many claims (Opens in a new window) about exactly what it is on a chemical level.

Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than five times the pressure in Earth’s core, scientists report ...

A battery made of diamonds could power devices for thousands of years, scientists have announced. This battery would be powered by a diamond surrounding a radioactive isotope of carbon known as ...