A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new ...

Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale, but for decades, no one was sure it truly existed. For 60 years, the material had only been reported in meteorite impact ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...