Posts Tagged ‘metallic carbon’

Metallic carbon nanotori

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

The interface between physics, chemistry (and materials science) can be a fascinating one. Here I show a carbon nanotorus, devised by physicists[cite]10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.217206[/cite] a few years ago. It is a theoretical species, and was predicted to have a colossal paramagnetic moment.

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