Harder Than Diamond Material Discovered, Wants A Name
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Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024
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Team of scientists have discovered a new form of material which is basically a unique form of carbon clusters with unusual mix of crystalline and disordered structure. The new super-hard material is capable of indenting diamond - one of the hardest materials known to humans.  The researchers created this new material by squeezing buckyballs, aka soccer-ball shaped carbon-60 molecules and Xylene [ C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> ] at a very high pressure, about 600k times the atmospheric pressure inside a device called diamond anvil cell.
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There were several attempts to create such super-hard material before. The new material, created at Argonne National Laboratory is more interesting because it retained its super-hard nature even after the pressure was released. Scientists believe that the new material will find applications in electronic, mechanical and electro-chemical industries.
The new material has not been named yet. If you have a fancy name for this new material, post it in the comments.
Image Credit:Â Lin Wang, #-Link-Snipped-#
There were several attempts to create such super-hard material before. The new material, created at Argonne National Laboratory is more interesting because it retained its super-hard nature even after the pressure was released. Scientists believe that the new material will find applications in electronic, mechanical and electro-chemical industries.
The new material has not been named yet. If you have a fancy name for this new material, post it in the comments.
Image Credit:Â Lin Wang, #-Link-Snipped-#