A team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has successfully created liquid carbon for the first time. This material was previously thought impossible to study in a laboratory setting.
“This is the first time we have ever been able to observe the structure of liquid carbon experimentally,” said Professor Dominik Kraus, Head of Carbon Working Group from the University of Rostock and HZDR.
“Our experiment confirms the predictions made by sophisticated simulations of liquid carbon. We are looking at a complex form of liquid, comparable to water, that has very special structural properties.”
