{"id":100688,"date":"2020-01-10T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-into-different-properties"},"modified":"2020-01-10T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T07:26:05","slug":"superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-into-different-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-into-different-properties","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Superdiamond\u2019 carbon-boron cages can trap and tap into different properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-into-different-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-sought-after class of \u201csuperdiamond\u201d carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized by Carnegie\u2019s Li Zhu and Timothy Strobel. Their work is published by Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon is the fourth-most\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/abundant+element\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">abundant element<\/a> in the universe and is fundamental to life as we know it. It is unrivaled in its ability to form stable structures, both alone and with other elements.<\/p>\n<p>A material\u2019s properties are determined by how its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> are bonded and the structural arrangements that these bonds create. For <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon<\/a>-based materials, the type of bonding makes the difference between the hardness of diamond, which has three-dimensional \u201csp3\u201d bonds, and the softness of graphite, which has two-dimensional \u201csp2\u201d bonds, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-sought-after class of \u201csuperdiamond\u201d carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized by Carnegie\u2019s Li Zhu and Timothy Strobel. Their work is published by Science Advances. Carbon is the fourth-most\u2013abundant element in the universe and is fundamental to life as we know it. It is unrivaled in its ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}