Tag Archive for 'Cyclocarbon'

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,...

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...