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. M-carbon engagement rings, ...

(Nanowerk News) A new study by Washington State University researchers answers longstanding questions about the formation of a rare type of diamond during major meteorite strikes. Hexagonal diamond or ...

The DCS two-stage gas gun used for experiments is linked to the APS x-ray beam. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 27, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The ...

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could lead to breakthroughs across several key industries that rely on the ...

In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...

Molten carbon can form into either diamond or graphite. A new study shows how graphite can sometimes form even under conditions that should lead to diamond. (Getty Images) The graphite found in your ...

The four-frame detector was used for diffraction. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 27, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.J. Turneaure at ...