Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are ...

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare ... and was created by heating highly compressed graphite. Using this approach, the team made a millimeter ...

Researchers have described a transformation of graphene in an entirely different form of carbon. The transformation preserves ...

Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth. This fact would likely pass muster at your local trivia night, but scientists ...

Diagram detailing the structure of lonsdaleite (Credit ... The team’s discovery was detailed in a new paper, “General approach for synthesizing hexagonal diamond by heating post-graphite phases,” ...

Until now, the hardest diamonds found on Earth were discovered only in impact craters, making them extremely rare and small. Research conducted at Jilin University in Changchun, led by Liu Bingbing ...

Turning graphite into diamond demands extreme heat and pressure to break and rebuild chemical bonds ... With five layers, this number increases to 45 different possible structures. By switching ...