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Smaller and stronger

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Fabrication of an ultra-strong glassy carbon nanolattice with a strut diameter of around 200 nm could stimulate the realization of advanced nanoscale architected materials.

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Figure 1: Synthesis procedure of glassy carbon nanolattices.
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  1. Department of Engineering Mechanics, Xiaoyan Li is at the Center for Advanced Mechanics and Materials, Applied Mechanics Laboratory, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,

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  2. Huajian Gao is at the School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA,

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