Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

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.

Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

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

A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example ...

In 1891, examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona, scientists reported finding "hard particles" within it. Later, in ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

Another drawback of producing red LEDs on ScAlMgO 4 is the high cost of the substrate. Team spokesman Kazuhiro Ohkawa told ...