Long-Sought-After Carbon Clathrate Predicted and Synthesized (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Long-Sought-After Carbon Clathrate Predicted and Synthesized

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Carnegie's Tim Strobel and Li Zhu led a team that used advanced structure searching tools to predict the first thermodynamically stable carbon-based clathrate and then synthesized the clathrate structure, which is comprised of carbon-boron cages that trap strontium atoms.

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Image is courtesy of Tim Strobel.

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