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Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond

Posted by michael on from the man's-best-friend dept.

purduephotog writes "CDAC has announced the formation of a new form of hexagonal packed carbon similiar to diamond. Carbon nanotubes are compressed at 75 GPa and quenched. The new material is conclusively different via Raman Spectroscopy and both cracked and indented the diamond anvil used in its creation. CDAC is also known to have created via CVD the hardest diamond to date."

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  1. reagenced carbon stronger than diamond ? by mirko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, Diamond is carbon so I guess it was not the most efficient way to compact it, or maybe it it takes 10000 years to coal to become diamond maybe it'd take 10 times more to diamond to achieve this new configuration ?

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  2. so... by ColonBlow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    how long till we see nanotube engagement rings?

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  3. Re:Is it really that hard by dtfinch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My boss is having us research which MFG/POS system will work best for our company.

  4. Re:Is it really that hard by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Overuse of acronyms degrade language, you know.

    IKWYM!

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