For those looking for cheap diamonds, they might want to cozy up to researchers at North Carolina State University. Jay Narayan and his colleagues have discovered a new form of solid carbon, called ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

A new form of carbon that is hard enough to indent diamond has been created by a team of researchers from the US and China. The new material, known as ordered amorphous carbon clusters (OACC), is ...

Researchers in Europe have developed an entirely new form of carbon, one that bears similarities to the wonder material graphene but with some useful differences. The incredibly thin sheets of ...

Carbon is an element of seemingly infinite possibilities. This is because the configuration of its electrons allows for numerous self-bonding combinations that give rise to a range of materials with ...

Diamonds may be forever, but are some other forms of carbon merely passing fads? Stuart Cantrill considers why carbon often seems to be a chemist's best friend. Although carbon is just one of the 92 ...

A new allotrope of carbon has been produced. Like graphene, it is only one atom thick, but unlike graphene it behaves like a metal even at small scales, ideal for nanosized wires. This result is ...