The Future of Strength: The Discovery of a Substance as Strong as Diamond. Scientists have discovered a solid object that can beat diamond as the world's strongest substance.
An international team of researchers has found in a study that when extreme heat and pressure are applied to carbon and nitrogen molecules, it results in materials called carbon nitrides that are stronger and stronger than cubic boron nitride. It is the second hardest material after diamond.
According to experts, this will pave the way for materials used for industrial purposes such as protective coatings on explorers and spacecraft, high-performance devices, solar panels, and photodetectors.
Materials researchers have been exploring the potential of carbon nitrides since the 1980s. It was then that they first learned about its unusual properties, including its heat resistance.
Yet three decades of research and numerous attempts to create them have yielded no substantial results. However, a team of researchers led by researchers from the University of Edinburgh (University of Bayreuth, Germany and University of Linköping, Sweden) ) eventually achieved this.
Dr. Dominic Liniel from the University of Edinburgh said that upon the discovery of the first of these new carbon nitride materials, researchers were in a state of uncertainty because it was a discovery that researchers had been working on for the past three decades. were thinking
These materials will provide a robust solution to bridge the gap between industrial use and the creation of high-pressure materials.