On the left, synthetic strategies toward the polyynic carbon chain are seen, with the bond-resolved AFM imaging showing the ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...

Throughout history, people have devised elaborate ways to memorialize the dead: the pyramids of Egypt, Europe’s Gothic mausoleums, the Taj Mahal in India. What some mourners consider meaningful ...

Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have successfully synthesized single-atom–thick sheets of gold for the first time. Their new material has been dubbed “goldene”, in a nod to the more ...

This report offers some of the most interesting facts relating to the global graphene and graphite industries. Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, formed in a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms ...

Carbon, graphite and diamond materials include vitreous, amorphous, or glassy carbon; hexagonal and pyrolytic graphite (PG); and naturally-occurring and synthetic diamonds, diamond-like carbon (DLC) ...

Supercharge your GCSE Chemistry revision by listening to these podcasts from Bitesize and BBC Sounds. Listen on the BBC Sounds app to revise when you're out and about, or listen at home as part of ...

Many traits of a type A personality lead to success in careers. You speak to people directly and say what you feel. You make decisions easily and work hard to get things done and done right.

As natural resources continue to deplete at an alarming rate, the need for sustainable fuel sources has become an urgent struggle. While there’s much been done to achieve electric vehicle shift ...