Prof. Wu HengAn's team from the University of Science and Technology of China has presented six representative phases of amorphous carbons based on large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, ...

A recent study in Nature Communications explored nanoporous amorphous carbon nanopillars, produced using an innovative method that combines self-assembled polymeric carbon precursors with nanoimprint ...

Under sliding stress, impurities such as oxygen help stabilize nano-voids in amorphous carbon (a-C), enabling surrounding carbon atoms to reorganize into aromatic, graphene-like structures that ...

Prof. Liu Lei's group from Peking University, users of the Steady-state High Magnetic Field Experimental Facility (SHMFF), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of ...

A new carbon material known as monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) however, is both strong and tough. (Nanowerk News) Even the strongest crack under pressure, a problem materials scientists have long ...

Economic gold deposits result from a 100- to 10,000-fold enrichment in gold relative to crustal background. In hydrothermal systems, this enrichment is achieved through the transport and accumulation ...

One of the grand challenges in the physical sciences is to ‘design’ a material before it is ever synthesized. There has been fast progress in predicting new solid-state compounds with the help of ...

Research published in Matter by Rice University and collaborators reports that MAC, a material recently synthesized at the National University of Singapore, is eight times tougher than graphene.

Researchers created a 1-atom-thick carbon membrane that sharpens proton beams, improving cancer therapy and enabling cleaner, scalable tech across multiple fields. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the ...

A 3D model of a sheet of hydrocarbon chains that form a honeycomb pattern. Each side of the honeycomb contains three benzene rings with short linkers between them. A new covalent organic framework is ...