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

Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-tough drilling and cutting ...

The new lab-grown hexagonal diamond, created by compressing graphite at unprecedented pressures before heating it to 1,800 K (1,527 °C or 2,780 °F), has now set a new benchmark.

Rather than synthesizing diamond-like glass directly from diamond, the research team started with a form of carbon known as fullerene or the "buckyball" due to its similar structure to a soccer ball.

Diamonds are precious. They’re valued for their beauty but they also have some incredible real-world applications. Thanks to its incredible hardness, diamond is often used … ...

AM-III differs from normal pieces of glass, which are typically weak, because it is glass with crystals inside. When viewed under a microscope, the material has an ordered structure similar to a ...

Space & Spaceflight Weird Hexagonal Diamonds Came From an Asteroid-Dwarf Planet Smashup The diamonds’ unusual crystal structure may make them harder than ordinary diamonds.

Researchers have created a new kind of glass that, thanks to an intense manufacturing process and a bizarre chemical structure, they say is just about as hard as natural diamonds. "Consequently ...

Journal Reference: Travis J. Volz, Y. M. Gupta. Elastic moduli of hexagonal diamond and cubic diamond formed under shock compression. Physical Review B, 2021; 103 (10) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103 ...