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

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).” In comparison, natural diamonds have a ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team led by SLAC scientists has uncovered a potential new route to produce thin diamond films for a variety of industrial applications, from cutting tools to electronic ...

Converting graphite into diamond has been a long held dream of alchemists the world over. In the modern era, materials scientists have puzzled over this process because it’s hard to work out why ...

Image shows simulations of the nucleation pathways of graphite (top row) and diamond (bottom row) from direct molecular dynamics simulations at pressures of 15 and 15.5 GPa and a temperature of ...

Both diamond and graphite are made entirely out of carbon, as is the more recently discovered buckminsterfullerene (a discrete soccer-ball-shaped molecule containing carbon 60 atoms).

Synthesis of diamond, a multi-functional material, has been a challenge due to very high activation energy for transforming graphite to diamond, and therefore, has been hindering it from being ...

The shock-induced transition from graphite to diamond has been of great scientific and technological interest since the discovery of microscopic diamonds in remnants of explosively driven graphite ...

Now, a new study, published in the journal Nature Materials, reports the synthesis of “well-crystallised, nearly pure HD” by heating highly compressed graphite. Researchers led by Liu Bingbing and Yao ...

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).” ...