Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one nanoscale carbon structure — a negatively curved surface called a schwarzite — has eluded everyone. Until now. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have proved that three carbon … Read more