Schwarzites: Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene

The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one nanoscale carbon structure – a negatively curved surface called a schwarzite – has eluded everyone. Until now. UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently … Continue reading Schwarzites: Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene