An international team of researchers, led by
Distinguished Professor Rodney S. Ruoff (Department of Chemistry)
from the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM),
within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) at UNIST, has
synthesized a film composed of densely packed diamond-like carbon
nanofibers. As described in a recent article published in the
journal ACS Nano, the researchers noted that the
new carbon material has a high concentration of
tetravalently-bonded carbons (the diamond-like nanofibers have many
C atoms with four other atoms bonded to them; this is also referred
to as “sp3-bonded carbon”).
