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The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from ...
Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...
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.
Latest Headlines Molecular simulations show graphite ‘hijacks’ diamond formation through unexpected crystallization pathways By UC Davis News Service PUBLISHED: July 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM PDT ...
This “super diamond” structure, according to scientists, exhibits high thermal stability “up to 1,100C and a very high hardness of 155 Giga Pascals (GPa).” ...
Matter (2020). [4] Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond. Nature (2022). [5] Complex nanostructures in diamond. Nature Materials (2020).
Volt Carbon Technologies Inc., is pleased to announce the successful synthesis of diamonds from its dry separated natural flake graphite produced at the Company's Scarborough, Ontario Facility.
Graphite samples were shock-compressed to pressures of up to 2 million atmospheres (2 Mbar) to trigger the structural transitions from graphite to diamond and lonsdaleite.
For these two Nature studies (and another Nature paper published in July 2022, for which he was first author, “Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond”), Luo ...
In this case, he's showing an atomic model of a diamond. Larger photo. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – In just the first few months of 2024, the journal Nature has ...