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 ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN.

In 1985, scientists discovered a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene or C60. This molecule, shaped like a soccer ball, ...

We can all only dream of owning rocks made of these. Simulations have revealed three stable forms of pure carbon that would sparkle more than diamond if synthesised. To explore whether forms of carbon ...