Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are ...

A team from Jilin University and Sun Yat-sen University say their lab-grown version is at least 40 per cent harder and far ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

Plastic ice VII confirmed under extreme pressure and heat Water molecules rotate while staying in a solid structure Findings may help understand alien planets and icy ...

The synthetic hexagonal diamond exhibits high thermal stability up to 1,100°C and a hardness of 155 GPa, promising advancements in aerospace and defense industries.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant breakthrough in materials science.

Natural diamonds mostly have a cubic lattice – or arrangement of their carbon atoms – but a hexagonal crystal structure is known to provide a much stronger material. However, researchers say ...

Natural diamonds mostly have a cubic lattice – or arrangement of their carbon atoms – but a hexagonal crystal structure is known to provide a much stronger material. However, researchers say, the ...

Just as a cube consists of six square facets, a tesseract comprises eight cubic cells ... imaging of a Q = –2 pentagonal plasmonic quasi-lattice mode. Similar features appear to be disappearing ...