Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

More than five hundred crystalline forms of carbon have been theoretically predicted to date, but few have been synthesized. In most of the existing crystalline carbons, each atom has either 4 ...

The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon as well. These include graphene and fullerenes, which are sp2 ...

Carbon occurs on the Earth in a variety of structures and forms. Elemental Carbon is usually formed under conditions of high pressure and temperature. Researchers have now, for the first time, ...

Carbon, one of the most versatile elements known, occurs in a multitude of allotropes that exhibit a wide array of physical and chemical properties. The diversity of carbon’s bonding—ranging from sp² ...

If you’ve been living on planet Earth, and are at least marginally interested in the world around you, then you have a general idea of what graphite is. That would be a crystalline form of carbon that ...

Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a methodology to enable coupling reactions for the ...

The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon as well. These include graphene and fullerenes, which are sp 2 ...