A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the Republic of Korea working with a colleague from the University of Cambridge, has developed a way to use chemical-vapor deposition to ...

The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a ...

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the most important yet. Reading time 3 minutes In 1962, researchers hypothesized ...

Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted it could ever be produced in bulk. The material, also called lonsdaleite, ...