The synthetic hexagonal diamond exhibits high thermal stability up to 1,100°C and a hardness of 155 GPa, promising ...

DIAMOND is generally thought to be one of the most perfect crystals occurring naturally: its atomic structure was first investigated in the very early days of X-ray crystal analysis. It turned out ...

Chinese scientists have successfully developed a high-quality “super diamond” in the laboratory, exhibiting a hardness far ...

The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967. Scientists have struggled to recreate lonsdaleite in the laboratory but now, a team of Chinese researchers ...

Chinese scientists create artificial diamond with hexagonal structure, harder and more heat-resistant than natural diamonds, ...

Researchers reveal that plasmons in boron-doped diamonds are driving advances in electronics, optics and quantum computing.

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first ...

Researchers from two higher-education institutions in China created a super rare high-quality diamond in the lab.

Researchers from two higher-education institutions in China have created a super-rare, high-quality diamond in the lab, which ...

The carbon-14 diamond battery, is a groundbreaking discovery that could 5,700 years without ever needing to recharge.