Is This New Super Carbon Better Than Graphene?

Scientists have been searching for schwarzites for decades, here’s how their discovery could change our world.

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Generating carbon schwarzites via zeolite-templating
"Nanocarbons can be characterized by their curvature—that is, positively curved fullerenes, zero-curved graphene, and negatively curved schwarzites. Schwartzites are fascinating materials but have not been synthesized yet, although disordered materials with local properties similar to schwarzites (“random schwarzites”) have been isolated."

Simulations suggest graphene’s elusive cousin may become a reality
“Now, Berend Smit’s laboratories at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a computational method which suggests that some kinds of zeolite-templated carbons (ZTCs), including some that have been attempted in labs, are in fact Schwarzites. Smit credits the project’s success to collaboration between chemists and mathematicians in his group.”

Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
“UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now being discovered in buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs or fullerenes for short), nanotubes and graphene.”

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[mr.personhumanson]

So it's basically, you have found a solution to a problem and the problem now is how to find the solution to the solution.

[petrichor_]

I love how most of these videos are “GUYS LOOK AT THIS AMAZING THING!” Then later on in the video “ACTUALLY NOT YET”

[dewiz]

Words to look out for:

If.
Could.
Might.

[joranwielandts]

Oh great...
There are not even graphene batteries and they're already outdated

[MultiverseMediaSpace]

I was just researching this last night, another interesting fact is there are theoretically, over a million versions of the structure, but only 10 have been successful so far, and the bulk of the structures have yet to be tested for feasibility.

[matildalair]

"Don't worry, graphene was at this stage 10 years ago" ... And I'm still waiting for a graphene battery. This doesn't give me confidence.

I'll probably be dead by the time they come out if they do.

[luciengrondin]

Metamaterials structures like this show up from times to times in science news. Some years ago it was "isomax", later it was "gyroid". Each time it is claimed this could be the next big thing. Dear materials scientists, get your things together and determine what is the best 3D structure once and for all.

[ramesis]

So what your saying is that they have learned to use the Schwartz

[tekila]

You're telling me spaceballs was prophetic? Use the Schwartz!!!

[loneenvoyyale]

All I'm waiting for is prosthetic limbs with awesome augments powered by this shit.

[Karabetter]

American people are incurring huge costs defending patent laws that only benefit large, multinational corporations. A patent should have a limit of 7 years, such that if it is not exploited on the open market by then, all protection rights are lost.
Look into these energy research projects closer, and you find that all of those that show any promise have majority interest bought up by the gas & oil industry, so they can lock up any marketing of a product that would compete with their industry. :(

[GHP]

So summary of this video is theoretical nano-carbon structure is made on a computer simulation, which has the potential to be better than graphene, but we've never observed nor made this in the real world so we cannot actually use it yet like we can Graphene, which we can sort of mass-produce relatively cheaply

[professordanfurmanek]

Another truly wonderful Seeker!! Would be great to see how things have progressed a year later now.

[joseignaciohileradorna]

Betterridge's law of headlines says no

[allanrichardson]

May the Schwartz be with you! -- Yogurt, in "Spaceballs"

[veyev]

The only thing I enjoyed more than the content is her expressions. Loved them!

[caminoprojectUS]

The world needs more of Maren. Excellent presentation. Cute with brains to spare from the sounds of it.

[TommoCarroll]

I didn't *nano* I'd find this so interesting...




But I did 😁 thanks Seeker!

[rogue]

How is it that everyone on this channel has the same mannerisms 🧐

[micahphilson]

This is still essentially graphene, it's the same thing molecularly. We don't consider buckyballs and nanotubes to be entirely different "super-carbons", they're all different ways of forming the same material in new geometric configurations.

Also, all the problems with making it are the same as we had with graphene sheets, the same as developing any new tech.