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Carbon Nanostructure created that is Stronger than Diamonds

UCI-led team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds
With wall thicknesses of about 160 nanometers, a closed-cell, plate-based nanolattice structure designed by researchers at UCI and other institutions is the first experimental verification that such arrangements reach the theorized limits of strength and stiffness in porous materials. Cameron Crook and Jens Bauer / UCI

Novel plate-cell architecture reaches theoretical limit of performance. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices — nanometer-sized carbon structures — that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.

In a recent study in Nature Communications, the scientists report success in conceptualizing and fabricating the material, which consists of closely connected, closed-cell...

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