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 new carbon-based material, monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC), is revolutionizing materials science. Unlike graphene, which ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers have previously pursued harder diamonds with hexagonal rather than cubic lattices ... However, past attempts to make hexagon-lattice synthetic diamonds have resulted in diamonds ...

Researchers have found that a two-dimensional carbon material is tougher than graphene and resists cracking—even the ...

Before the shovels or snow blowers come out when dawn is just awakening, it’s nice to stand outside and experience a certain kind of peace you never feel except at this time in winter.

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

Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first discovered in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure. The lab-grown diamond in question is of ...