A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...
A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...
The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a ...
After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s ...