Researchers have produced nearly pure hexagonal diamond, a material long theorized to be harder than conventional diamond, by ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international research team has produced a bulk, millimeter-scale hexagonal diamond in the laboratory, a crystal variant long theorized to rival or exceed the hardness of the cubic diamonds found ...

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

A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Umeå University, in Sweden, has grown a diamond that is harder ...

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 ...