The measurements revealed that with four nearest neighbors each, the systemics of liquid carbon are similar to solid diamond. “This is the first time we have ever been able to observe the structure of ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, has successfully measured the atomic structure of liquid carbon for the first time, according to ...

The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction, in Nature, 2025 (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09035-6) Additional information: Prof. Dominik Kraus ...