Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1).

Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’ The fundamental discovery deepens scientists’ understanding of chemical bonding.

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Another company which does not make carbon-fiber barrels, but makes other things with C-F, says two to three times. As for longer barrel life, there’s plenty of disagreement.

Carbon nanotubes come in two forms: the single-walled variety, which is characterized by a cylinder of carbon with walls just one atom thick, and a multiple-walled variety marked by several tubes ...

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TEAR up that old textbook. A pyramid-shaped carbon molecule that contradicts one of the most basic chemistry lessons we learn at school has been studied for the first time. It contains a carbon ...