As the world's appetite for carbon-based materials like graphite increases, researchers presented evidence this week for a new carbon solid they ... a layered graphitic structure by thermal ...

Figure 1: AFM image and structural model of the graphite oxide (GO) sheets. Figure 2: Solid-state 13 C magic ... interior defect site in the graphene structure in order to accommodate the six ...

Synthetic graphite is made by subjecting amorphous (non-crystalline) carbon to enormously high temperatures to rearrange the carbon atoms into the proper crystal structure. Choice of feedstock is ...

"Considering that graphite-to-diamond is a prototype solid-to-solid transition ... that correspond to the lowest-energy intermediate structures in the graphite-to-diamond transition.

However, the same graphite structure fails when it comes to sodium ... like cryogenic transmission electron microscopy and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance confirmed that ions were entering ...

Researchers at US-based Rice University have been working on ways to make sodium and potassium-ion batteries viable through ...

Exposing this layered structure to an ultrafast-pulsing laser instantly converts the graphite to an ionized plasma and creates ... This technique provides a new channel, from confined plasma to solid, ...

According to the new study, lithium plating can be significantly mitigated by optimizing the microstructure of the graphite negative electrode. The graphite negative electrode is made up of ...