Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one-dimensional allotropes of carbon made by rolling sheet of graphene, an advanced material that can be engineered. The global carbon nanotubes market size was valued at ...

Carbon is famous for its allotropes, including humble graphite, flashy diamond, and satisfyingly symmetrical buckminsterfullerene. But allotropes of nitrogen, carbon’s neighbor in the periodic ...

The Group 14 element silicon possesses a complex free-energy landscape with many (local) minima, allowing for the formation of a variety of unusual structures, some of which may be stabilized at ...

Graphene, Carbon nanoribbons, Carbon nanotubes and Fullerene (Buckyball) are allotropes of carbon which are widely used in Nanotechnology research due to their remarkable properties. Electrical and ...

Pure carbon is found in nature in several different forms, or allotropes, including graphene, diamond, nanotubes, and fullerenes or "buckyballs." Each form has attributes that make it excel at ...

When the same element is able to exist in different forms, the forms are called allotropes. Graphene, thus, is an allotrope of carbon, along with diamond and graphite. It consists of a single ...

Among 2D allotropes there is evidence for graphdiyne, Proserpio notes. This version of graphene has four sp carbons along some edges that form two carbon–carbon triple bonds. Roald Hoffmann from ...