The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from ...

A new form of diamond has been created. Its unique structure gives it properties that are similar to those of natural diamonds, but it is more stable under extreme heat, so may be useful in tools ...

Rare diamonds found in meteorites called ureilites have a folded hexagonal structure. Learning the process of how they were formed could inspire better lab-grown diamonds.

The Structure of a Buckyball Back to See Inside a Diamond Click and drag the molecule to rotate it. PC users - click right button in window for options.

Nov 04, 2011 Artificial diamond structure made from silicon: a semiconductor for light (Nanowerk News) The continuous success of the computer industry is made possible by the ongoing miniaturization ...

A star material for hosting quantum information, diamond nevertheless presents a challenge: Signals from the bits of quantum information embedded in diamond are often messy and inconsistent. In ...

The diamond structures were locked inside the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago and was first discovered in Arizona in 1891. The diamonds in this meteorite aren't ...

Diamond is optically transparent to lightwaves of a wide range of wavelengths, including the visible spectrum between 400nm and 750nm. It is due to this fact that diamond is particularly useful in ...