A team of scientists from two universities in China synthesized a material harder than diamond in the laboratory. When carbon ...

The synthetic hexagonal diamond exhibits high thermal stability up to 1,100°C and a hardness of 155 GPa, promising advancements in aerospace and defense industries.

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a groundbreaking method to transform graphite into materials with ...

Do lab-grown diamonds really look and feel as good as the real thing? I got my hands on some standout pieces from Pandora’s ...

IT is generally accepted that the lattice parameter of retained austenite in quenched iron—carbon alloys increases continuously and linearly with the increase of carbon content. So far ...

A holey carbon material with ordered sub-nanometer hole defects was synthesized from oxidative cyclodehydrogenation of a polyhexaphenylbenzene precursor. Band gap of around 2.2 eV is formed due to the ...