The identification of pyrolytic carbon as a suitable material for heart valves happened almost accidentally. In 1966, Dr. Bokros was working on pyrolytic carbon coatings for nuclear fuel particles. He ...

PREVIOUS work on the mechanical properties of pyro-lytic carbon has been confined to massive deposits laid down on stationary formers 1,2. Such deposits have a limited range of structure. An ...

THE unique properties of pyrolytic carbon have made it useful for many high-temperature applications. Because of the anisotropy of the physical and mechanical properties of the individual crystallites ...

A recent study published in Communications Materials introduced a modular assembly approach to scaling up lightweight, rigid, and programmable pyrolytic carbon (PyC) lattice structures. Researchers ...

Researchers have constructed microscopic carbon structures that boast the best combination of strength and elasticity of any material studied to date (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2019, DOI: ...