Hard yet elastic, electrically conductive carbon form made
Scientists have developed an ultrastrong, lightweight carbon form that is also elastic and electrically conductive. The team used a glassy carbon form and heated it to about 1000ÂºC under extreme pressures. The material has diamond-like linkages (red spheres) formed at crosslinks between layers of graphene (blue spheres) and can be used in aerospace engineering and military armour, scientists said.