New Form of Carbon is Hard As a Rock, Yet Elastic, Like Rubber (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

New Form of Carbon is Hard As a Rock, Yet Elastic, Like Rubber

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This is a visualization of ultrastrong, hard and elastic compressed glassy carbon. The illustrated structure is overlaid on an electron microscope image of the material.

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Images are provided courtesy of Timothy Strobel.

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