Created the "diamond nanowires" Diamond: will bring us into space

The super resistant material, designed by a group of American researchers, could be used to build a "lift" from science fiction.

From here to the universe traveling on a space elevator. The structure described in 1979 by Arthur C. Clarke in his science fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise is now closer, thanks to a research team led by John Badding Penn State University who has realized for the first time of "nanowires" diamond. It is a brand new type of material more rigid and resistant and that of the nanotubes could find applications to science fiction. The research was described in the journal Nature Materials. Create "threads", just a few atoms thick, composed in the same way as diamonds (the hardest material we know) is a goal pursued for decades as it could be the key to the creation of new super-resistant materials. 

Using the special "presses", American researchers were able to "crush" the molecules of benzene (composed of hydrogen and carbon) and push the carbon atoms at the center in order to arrange them to form a perfectly symmetrical pattern. This is a new technique that allows to "drive" the spatial orientation of the atoms of the material and according to the researchers may also be used with different atoms and thus form a large variety of materials. The production of diamond nano-wires will still need further study, are too high for now the costs to produce them on an industrial scale, but in the future the "wire edge" could be used to create lightweight and ultra-durable. "One of our biggest dreams," said, "it would build a 'space elevator', just as there is in science fiction."