Superhard Carbon Structures (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Superhard Carbon Structures

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An illustration depicts three of 43 newly predicted superhard carbon structures. The cages colored in blue are structurally related to diamond, and the cages colored in yellow and green are structurally related to lonsdaleite.

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Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo, adapted from Figure 3 in P. Avery et al., <em>npj Computational Materials</em>, Sept. 3, 2019.

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