Newly-Developed Carbon Nanolattices are Stronger than Diamonds

www.sci.news ^ | April 18, 2020 | News Staff

[Jonty30]

An international team of scientists has created carbon nanolattices — constructed from closed-cell plate-architectures — that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.

“Scientists have predicted that nanolattices arranged in a plate-based design would be incredibly strong,” said first author Cameron Crook, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine.

“But the difficulty in manufacturing structures this way meant that the theory was never proven, until we succeeded in doing it.”

[Candor7]

Body Armor just got a lot lighter.

[jmcenanly]

Diamonds are also completely carbon. Here is a site that sells vapor-deposited diamonds. The process might be similar to what would be used to make the matrices described in the article.

[GingisK]

Are they clear like diamonds?

[GingisK]

Hardness is usually at the expense of tenacity.

[Lazamataz]

BULLETPROOF

[GingisK]

Hardness is not the right choice for armor. If it were, you would have already seen tungsten carbide armor.

With hardness comes brittle.

[Candor7]

Well I rekon they could combine it with a lattice of Cheeze Whiz of something.

[GingisK]

I was thinking “grits”.

[Candor7]

That’ll work!

[bert]

Hmmm...... what is the tensile strength of a raw diamond? then compression. What is the compressive strength of a raw diamond?