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Posted on 02/13/2023 3:35:46 PM PST by upchuck
h/t to Red Badger
Recently, a team of researchers from the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea led by Director Rodney Ruoff and his colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China led by Professor Yanwu Zhu, reported a discovery of a new form of carbon.
Zhu who led the USCT team said, “Professor Ruoff explained his interest in the triply periodic minimal surfaces that were described by the mathematician Schwartz, and how trivalently bonded carbon can in principle yield identical structures at the mathematical constructs. These are now referred to as “carbon schwarzite” structures, and that also can be called “negative curvature carbon”. I told him years ago that this was an exciting research topic and that it might be possible to find ways to collaborate on his suggestion.”
This new form of carbon was produced using C60 fullerene (buckminsterfullerene, also called “buckyball molecules”) powder, as base material. The C60 was mixed with α-Li3N (“alpha lithium nitride”) and then heated to moderate temperatures while holding at one atmosphere of pressure.
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This could lead to New Form of Carbon based life forms.
Old form of Carbon based life to the right.
New form of Carbon based life to the left.
Not sure if they would be superior in anyway, but it does sound like they might have a lot of balls.
The sciency stuff is interesting, but can you make a fishing rod out of it?
Practical applications?
Well, “May the Schwartzite be with you!” is a least a bit closer to the Schwartz.
Non-binary trans-carbon?
You got me. I just manage the ping list for folks that are way smarter than me :)
Do we have to buy offsets to use this material?
Don’t know. But I did notice this research is being done in N Korea and China.
They’ll be wiped out by carbon neutrality in a few years.
I think they invented it to make a golf club.
;-)
“Practical applications?”
Oh, yes. Loads and loads of them.
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Wow. I’ve never seem a Raman shift pattern in carbon materials that looked like a mountain before. Usually there are distinctive spike patterns.
Fascinating.
That was my first thought as well. I'm guessing that schwartzite is black in color. LOL!!
Ugly Stik is way ahead of them.
Seems to say South Korea right there in the 3rd paragraph.
Yeah, but they're really tiny.
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