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Graphite squeezed between two diamond jaws at pressures of 170,000 atmospheres managed to produce a crack in the diamond. The atomic structure of the material remained elusive, however.

The structure of graphite crystal is a repetitive pattern. ... In the case of graphite, the moiré potential at an aligned interface could penetrate through more than 40 atomic graphitic layers.

"We were able to see how the structure changed at the atomic level when the graphite was squeezed into the super-hard form," remarked co-author Dave Mao of Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory.

Crystalline graphite is routinely used to calibrate scanning tunnelling microscopes because its surface is clean and flat on the atomic scale. However, scanning tunnelling microscopes (STMs) can only ...

Graphite surface microscopic image and valence band structure together with atomic structure models. Credit: Fumihiko Matsui, Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan ...

NUS scientists have demonstrated a general approach for characterizing the atomic structure and electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2-D) magnetic insulators using scanning ...

Understanding how oxygen breaks up the atomic structure of graphite could lead to a whole new area of nanotechnology based on nanoscale graphite origami 8. References. He, H., Klinowski, ...