Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting graphite to extreme pressure and heat, researchers synthesized a rare ...

In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington ...

Through this approach, more open, but still stable, crystal structures can be obtained. Indeed, diamond colloidal crystals have been demonstrated 10, however, as a micromanipulator was used to ...

Since now, the hardest diamonds known have been found only in asteroid and meteoroid impact craters (Credits: Charles O’Rear/Getty Images) The ‘super diamond’ structure exhibits high ...

The crystal has a lattice parameter of 0.541 nm. The crystal structure is also known as diamond cubic and may be thought of as two interpenetrating fcc lattices, one for sulphur the other for zinc, ...

have a hexagonal crystal structure. Previously, the hardest diamonds were found only in impact craters, making them very rare and small. The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...