By heating carbon to 1,000 degrees Celsius, and putting it under 250,000 times normal atmospheric pressure, a team of Chinese and American scientists has produced a form of carbon that is incredibly strong and super-flexible that could be used in everything from exoskeletons to spaceships, according to a study published in Science Advances. Called 'compressed glassy carbon,' it's more elastic than organic rubber and silica, and around five times stronger than many common metals and alloys; properties that come from the graphite- and diamond-like bonds, and layers of graphene, which give it both softness and strength. To find out more go to Compressed glassy carbon: An ultrastrong and elastic interpenetrating graphene network.
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Hi. I'm Carl A. Williams, a science, technology & industry writer living in San Francisco. I have published articles on a broad ranges of topics, from climate change and nanotechnology to quantum computing and artificial intelligence, a selection of which are presented here.
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