The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

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).

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 ...

A new technique uses a pulsing laser to create synthetic nanodiamond films and patterns from graphite, with potential applications from biosensors to computer chips. “The biggest advantage is that you ...

The film discusses the significance of carbon, highlighting its presence in 90% of known compounds and its various forms, such as diamond and graphite. It explains the atomic structure of carbon ...

A team of physicists at Yale University found that graphite, another form of carbon, becomes diamond-like under cold-compression to form a new product called M-carbon.

Diamond and graphite are both allotropes of carbon; their vastly different properties come down to the way the carbon atoms are arranged (Image: Materialscientist, used under CC 3.0 by-sa) 3 / 3.

These sintered diamonds can be used only at temperatures of up to 600–700 °C — particularly in the presence of metal binders, which help diamond to transform back to graphite at ambient pressure.

Molten carbon can crystallize into diamond or graphite, but it has been difficult to study this process. New simulations show ...

Then the graphite plasma quickly solidifies into diamond. The glass sheet confines the plasma to keep it from escaping, allowing it to form a nanodiamond coating. "These are super-small diamonds and ...