Researchers have finally proven that atomic diffraction is possible, paving the way for a new understanding of quantum ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

"That's the key to understanding the mechanism of reorienting the carbon atoms to form graphite and how fast it happens," Lara-Curzio said. While many ORNL experts work to improve graphite ...

The stable form of carbon at room temperature is Graphite which has a hexagonal crystal structure ... The diamond cubic structure is a face-centered-cubic lattice with a basis of two carbon atoms.

There has been an explosion of interest in the physics of graphene — individual layers of graphite in which each carbon atom is bonded to three other carbon atoms — since it was first ...

Unlike graphite, graphene only contains a single layer of carbon atoms. Scientists are still working out how we could use it, but in the future it could be used to make better gloves, sportswear ...

A big, beautiful diamond. Sure, it catches light like no other gem, and it's the hardest material on Earth, and it's worth an awful lot of money. But what is it really but a collection of ordinary ...