Machine learning simulations uncover how plastic transforms into hard carbon

Chemists at the University of Oxford have resolved the decade-old mystery of how hard carbon forms atom by atom
Seventy-five years after Rosalind Franklin’s foundational research into non-graphitising carbons, chemists at the University of Oxford have resolved the decade-old mystery of how hard carbon forms atom by atom Published in Chemical Science, the study... [2403 chars]
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