In a letter to her older brother from 1947, soon after she had arrived in Paris, Rosalind E.
Franklin said that she was ready to 'go more primitive'if this would preserve her freedom …

Carbon is an element with extremely versatile bonding properties and theoretical
calculations have suggested the possible existence of several hundred structural allotropes …

Amorphous materials inherit short-and medium-range order from the corresponding crystal
and thus preserve some of its properties while still exhibiting novel properties,. Due to its …

Understanding the direct transformation from graphite to diamond has been a long-standing
challenge with great scientific and practical importance. Previously proposed transformation …

Modern vibrational spectroscopy is more than just an analytical tool. Information about the
electronic structure of a molecule, the strength of its bonds, and its conformational flexibility …

Recently, many studies have been conducted on the use of glassy carbon (GC) in advanced
technological applications due to its excellent chemical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal …

Materials that possess the ability to self-heal cracks at room temperature, akin to living
organisms, are highly sought after. However, achieving crack self-healing in inorganic …

Fullerene transformation emerges as a powerful route to construct defect-rich carbon
electrocatalysts, but the carbon bond breakage and reformation that determine the defect …

When certain polymers are heat-treated beyond their degradation temperature in the
absence of oxygen, they pass through a semi-solid phase, followed by the loss of …

Carbon is one of the most fascinating elements due to its structurally diverse allotropic forms
stemming from its bonding varieties (sp, sp 2 and sp 3). Exploring new forms of carbon has …