While studying diamonds inside an ancient meteorite, scientists have found a strange, interwoven microscopic structure that has never been seen before.
These growths are known as diaphites, and inside the meteorite, they form in a particularly intriguing layered pattern. In between these layers are"stacking faults", which mean the layers don't line up perfectly, the researchers said in aFinding diaphites in the meteoritic lonsdaleite suggests that this material can be found in other carbonaceous material, the scientists wrote in the study, which means it could be readily available to use as a resource.
Graphene is made of a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, arranged in hexagons. Although research on this material is still ongoing, the material has many potential applications. Because it is both as light as a feather and as strong as a diamond, both transparent and highly conductive, and 1 million times thinner than a human hair, it could one day be used for more targeted medicines, tinier electronics withAnd now that researchers have discovered these graphene growths inside meteorites, it's possible to learn more about how they form"Through the controlled layer growth of structures, it should be possible to design materials that are both ultra-hard and also...
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