A concise review of the Raman spectra of carbon allotropes

V Thapliyal, ME Alabdulkarim, DR Whelan… - Diamond and related …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Raman spectroscopy has developed into a leading tool for characterizing organic materials
based on their rotational and vibrational spectral signatures. This article summarises …

[HTML][HTML] A review of diamond synthesis, modification technology, and cutting tool application in ultra-precision machining

J Zhang, J Wang, G Zhang, Z Huo, Z Huang, L Wu - Materials & Design, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Diamond is the hardest natural material, boasting a variety of remarkable properties.
However, due to increased demand and technological advancements, natural diamond has …

A Pentagonal Defect-Rich Metal-Free Carbon Electrocatalyst for Boosting Acidic O2 Reduction to H2O2 Production

C Zhang, W Shen, K Guo, M **ong… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Metal-free carbon-based materials are considered one of the most promising two-electron
oxygen reduction reaction (2e–ORR) electrocatalysts for the green synthesis of hydrogen …

Long-range ordered porous carbons produced from C60

F Pan, K Ni, T Xu, H Chen, Y Wang, K Gong, C Liu, X Li… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Carbon structures with covalent bonds connecting C60 molecules have been reported,–, but
their production methods typically result in very small amounts of sample, which restrict the …

Overcoming strength-ductility tradeoff with high pressure thermal treatment

Y Tang, H Wang, X Ouyang, C Wang, Q Huang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Conventional material processing approaches often achieve strengthening of materials at
the cost of reduced ductility. Here, we show that high-pressure and high-temperature …

Manipulating Peierls Distortion in van der Waals NbOX2 Maximizes Second-Harmonic Generation

T Fu, K Bu, X Sun, D Wang, X Feng, S Guo… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials, featuring relaxed phase-matching
conditions and highly tunable optical nonlinearity, endow them with potential applications in …

Amorphization by mechanical deformation

BY Li, AC Li, S Zhao, MA Meyers - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Amorphization of crystalline structures is a ubiquitous phenomenon in metals, ceramics, and
intermetallic compounds. Although the amorphous phase generally has a higher Gibbs free …

Self-healing of fractured diamond

K Qiu, J Hou, S Chen, X Li, Y Yue, B Xu, Q Hu, L Liu… - Nature Materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
Materials that possess the ability to self-heal cracks at room temperature, akin to living
organisms, are highly sought after. However, achieving crack self-healing in inorganic …

Fullerene fragment restructuring: how spatial proximity shapes defect-rich carbon electrocatalysts

N Li, K Guo, M Li, X Shao, Z Du, L Bao… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Fullerene transformation emerges as a powerful route to construct defect-rich carbon
electrocatalysts, but the carbon bond breakage and reformation that determine the defect …

Enhancement of short/medium-range order and thermal conductivity in ultrahard sp3 amorphous carbon by C70 precursor

Y Shang, M Yao, Z Liu, R Fu, L Yan, L Yang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
As an advanced amorphous material, sp 3 amorphous carbon exhibits exceptional
mechanical, thermal and optical properties, but it cannot be synthesized by using traditional …