Diamond configuration of carbon.
And recently, researchers have created an extremely hard form of carbon but also very flexible by burning this element at 1,000 degrees Celsius and placing it under 250,000 times the normal pressure. The new ultra-light, high-strength carbon form, this good resilience can be applied in many fields, from prosthetic limbs to humans to materials that make spacecraft flying into space.
Zhisheng Zhao, a researcher from Yanshan University in China and his colleagues found the optimal conditions, helped to promote carbon binding, consolidation in a variety of configurations after many failed attempts. . They have obtained a new form of carbon that is configured like both graphene and diamond, and has graphene layers, which help it both have softness and strength. This new material is called the "compressed glass carbon" by the scientists.
The three different types contained in this new material, the black spheres represent the layers of graphene, while the red spheres represent diamond-like bonds.
According to experts, this new carbon form has outstanding advantages, promising to be applied in many industries:
The researchers hope that with the same technique, they can help find a range of new materials that have never been known.