Carbon exhibits a remarkable range of electronic behaviours across its allotropes, governed primarily by the hybridisation of its atomic orbitals and the topology of its crystal lattice. In the ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Carbon allotropes across dimensions: from 0D to 3D. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific ...

A combined team of chemists from Oxford University, and IBM Research Europe-Zürich has successfully synthesized a doubly anti-aromatic C 16 carbon allotrope. In their paper published in the journal ...

The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon as well. These include graphene and fullerenes, which are sp2 ...

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical structures made of rolled-up graphene sheets. They can be single-walled (SWCNTs), with a diameter of around 1 nm, or multi-walled (MWCNTs), with diameters ranging from ...