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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Yep, it was Upchuck............
“The sciency stuff is interesting, but can you make a fishing rod out of it?”
How about a new baseball bat that is very springy. To hit the ball harder and further? Make hockey sticks out of it too.
Can you imagine a hat made from this material? It would totally change the way we think about hats.
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