Structure of new form of super-hard carbon identified
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 07:10
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment in 2003 formed what was believed to be a new form of carbon, but the findings were controversial. Now two teams of scientists have used different means to identify a three-dimensional network structure called "bct-carbon," which they say could have been the structure formed in 2003.