New Material Harder Than Diamond

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"Diamond is no longer the hardest substance known to man. Scientists have created a new material, called "aggregated diamond nanorods" by compressing carbon-60 under high heat. From the article: 'The hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond.'"

Links: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/16/1?rss=2.0
http://www.popmath.org.uk/sculpture/pages/carbon.html

Quelle: science.slashdot.org
 
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