Carbon nanothreads from compressed benzene
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
A new carbon nanomaterial – the thinnest possible one-dimensional thread that still retains a diamond-like structure – was created by the controlled, slow compression and decompression of benzene. The diamond-like structural unit consists of six-sided rings of carbon atoms bonded together in chains surrounded by a halo of hydrogen atoms.