#Fullertubes Join the Family of Carbon Crystals

Carbon can arrange itself into one of the hardest materials in nature, or into one so soft that children inscribe trails of it on paper. Several decades ago, scientists started wondering: Aside from diamond and graphite, what other crystalline forms might carbon take? In 1985, they had their first answer.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fullertubes-join-the-family-of-carbon-crystals-20221220/

#Fullertubes Join the Family of Carbon Crystals

Carbon can arrange itself into one of the hardest materials in nature, or into one so soft that children inscribe trails of it on paper. Several decades ago, scientists started wondering: Aside from diamond and graphite, what other crystalline forms might carbon take? In 1985, they had their first answer.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fullertubes-join-the-family-of-carbon-crystals-20221220/

#Fullertubes Join the Family of Carbon Crystals

Carbon can arrange itself into one of the hardest materials in nature, or into one so soft that children inscribe trails of it on paper. Several decades ago, scientists started wondering: Aside from diamond and graphite, what other crystalline forms might carbon take? In 1985, they had their first answer.

#ThrowbackThursday - the 2014 Student Research Symposium at Indiana – #Purdue Fort Wayne.
Photos of me and my colleague Yuan Zhang judging poster presentations, including one from
Steve Stevenson’s #fullerene lab ⚽
https://www.pfw.edu/affiliates/sigmaxi/events/symposium2014.html
#FortWayne #fullertubes #Science