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China team grows world’s rarest millimeter-sized ‘hexagonal’ diamond crystal
After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s ...
“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.
After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the ...
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 ...
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The Pantry Staple Alton Brown Doesn't Ever Run Out Of
Alton Brown, the man who can clearly explain food ingredients like no other, has this pantry staple on hand at all times to ensure he never runs out.
In a paper published today in Nature Synthesis, a team from the lab of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Chemistry Department Prof. Paul Alivisatos ...
In a paper published today in Nature Synthesis, a team from the lab of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Chemistry Department Prof. Paul ...
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Scientists forge hexagonal diamond that might crush real diamonds
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 ...
In a paper published today in Nature Synthesis , a team from the lab of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME ...
Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known ...
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US scientists simulate elusive ideal glass that behaves mechanically like a crystal
Scientists have created the first computer model of an “ideal glass,” a theoretical material ...
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