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 ...

Diamond and graphite are two naturally occurring carbon allotropes that we have known about for thousands of years. They are elemental carbons that are arranged in a manner so that they consist of ...

Carbon atoms can be combined in different configurations with widely varying properties. Graphite and diamond are the most familiar, while more exotic allotropes include graphene, with versatile ...

“These new allotropes are significantly denser than any of the known allotropes of carbon,” says Oganov. This gives them a higher refractive index – a measure of the extent to which they ...

The way the carbon atoms are arranged in space, however, is different for the three materials, making them allotropes of carbon. The differing properties of carbon and diamond arise from their ...

Here's a poem by Pat Sheil of Granny's Column fame, read by John Derum, Isotopes and Allotropes. Should you wish to establish the date, Of the demise of a thylacine, Make a bone carbon ratio ...