What is it about?
Carbon films, graphite, diamond and Carbon Fiber Composites (CFC), play a leading role in many technology and engineering fields. In the last 30 years, fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene pushed further the opportunities of nanotechnology applications. Carbon-atom wires are the ultimate 1D carbon nanostructures (1-atom diameter) with amazing properties.
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Why is it important?
According to theory carbyne and carbon atom wires have outstanding properties. We discuss the present state of the art to show that the design and control of wire structure open the way to build materials with tunable properties.
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I was invited to write this article when I was at an international conference. I hope that this article may interest in such novel forms of carbon.
prof. Carlo Spartaco Casari
Politecnico di Milano
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This page is a summary of: Carbyne: from the elusive allotrope to stable carbon atom wires, MRS Communications, April 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1557/mrc.2018.48.
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