{"id":16147,"date":"2021-11-26T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=16147"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:31:04","slug":"new-carbon-material-labelled-paracrystalline-diamond-has-been-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/new-carbon-material-labelled-paracrystalline-diamond-has-been-created\/16147\/","title":{"rendered":"New carbon material, labelled Paracrystalline diamond, has been created"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have collaborated with partners in China and the US, to successfully produce a carbon material that does not have the strictly ordered structures of a crystal<\/a> but is also not amorphous. This is a first-time achievement.<\/p>\n They created a paracrystalline diamond with unique optical, mechanical and thermophysical properties. The material offers significant clues for understanding non-crystalline materials as well as for the targeted synthesis of other new carbon materials. The international team presents its discovery in Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n Diamond is an extraordinarily hard material that naturally forms under extremely high pressures within the Earth’s interior. It is composed of carbon atoms that form a three-dimensional crystalline lattice structure. Within this structure, each individual carbon atom has four covalent bonds.<\/p>\n The four electrons implicated in these bonds are distributed among the orbitals of the atom in a characteristic manner. Consequently, the state in which the carbon atoms of a diamond are located is also called “sp3 hybridization”.<\/p>\n Diamond is present in many crystal forms, among which the most familiar are cubic diamond (CD) and hexagonal diamond (HD). Although, the synthesis of non-crystalline diamond has proven technically complex, limiting our understanding of its structure, properties, and its synthesis mechanism.<\/p>\nDiamond properties<\/h3>\n