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  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Solid State Chemistry

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  • The exploration of novel carbon allotropes is crucial for both technological advancements and understanding natural carbon formation processes.
  • Carbon materials formed under extreme conditions, such as planetary impacts and laboratory shock synthesis, exhibit unique structural properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe two new families of diamond-graphene (diaphite) nanostructural phases.
  • To establish a classification framework for these novel carbon materials.
  • To identify these structures in natural and synthetic carbon samples.

Main Methods:

  • Crystallographic analysis of natural impact diamonds and laboratory-shocked carbon samples.
  • Identification of nanocomposite structures with distinct diffraction features.
  • Theoretical framework for classifying sp3 and sp2 bonded carbon nanounits.

Main Results:

  • Discovery of two new families of diamond-graphene (diaphite) phases.
  • Identification of these diaphite structures in natural impact diamonds and laboratory-shocked samples.
  • Observed diffraction features previously attributed to lonsdaleite and postgraphite phases.

Conclusions:

  • Diaphite nanocomposites represent a new class of high-performance carbon materials.
  • These materials are predicted to exhibit a combination of diamond's superhardness and graphene's fracture toughness.
  • Atomically defined interfaces between sp3 and sp2 domains contribute to enhanced material properties.