Tag Archive for 'Allotrope'

Chemical structure of the cyclo[48]carbon [4]catenan. Image credit: Harry Anderson.

Chemists Synthesize New Carbon Allotrope

Aug 15, 2025 by News Staff

Carbon can exist in different forms — called allotropes — giving it completely different properties from color to shape to hardness. For example,...

Scientists Synthesize Crystalline Gamma-Graphyne

May 23, 2022 by News Staff

Graphynes are two-dimensional carbon allotropes similar to the wonder material graphene that is optically transparent and mechanically flexible, and yet...

Visualization of the structure of 4H-Si viewed perpendicular to the hexagonal axis. A transmission electron micrograph showing the stacking sequence is displayed in the background. Image credit: Thomas Shiell / Timothy Strobel.

Scientists Synthesize New Crystalline Form of Silicon

Jun 8, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, RMIT University and the Australian National University has synthesized a new form of silicon...

Biphenylene network: the upper part of the image shows schematically the linking of the carbon atoms, forming squares, hexagons, and octagons; the lower part is an image of the network obtained with high-resolution microscopy. Image credit: University of Marburg / Aalto University.

Scientists Synthesize New Allotrope of Carbon

May 24, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Marburg and Aalto University has synthesized an ultraflat biphenylene network, which is atomically thin like...

Cyclo[18]carbon. Image credit: Kaiser et al.

Cyclocarbon: New Form of Carbon Synthesized

Aug 16, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and IBM Research-Zürich has, for the first time, synthesized and characterized a ring of 18 carbon...