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
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/201...
"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
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistr...
“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
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/08/13/l...
“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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