Science Daily May 21, 2022
Scientists have long been interested in the construction of new or novel carbon allotropes. The most well-known carbon allotropes are graphite and diamonds, which are created out of sp2 carbon and sp3 carbon, respectively. However, the traditional methods don’t allow for the different types of carbon to be synthesized together in large capacity. Researchers at the University of Colorado used alkyne metathesis as well as thermodynamics and kinetic control to successfully create a material that could rival the conductivity of graphene but with control. Now the team is looking into the details of it, including how to create the material on a large scale and how it can be manipulated, exploring it from multiple dimensions, both experimentally and theoretically, from atomic level to real devices. The work fills a longstanding gap in carbon material science, potentially opening brand-new possibilities for electronics, optics, and semiconducting material research…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Crystal structure of γ-graphyne with the unit cell and primitive cell. Credit: Nature Synthesis (2022)Â