To synthesize the crystals, the team compressed highly ordered pyrolytic graphite to pressures as high as 20 gigapascals, ...

Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

Researchers have used a diamond sheet and salt film to make hexagonal salt crystals. Sodium chloride is massively common in our universe, but still full of surprises. The scientists used a ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. FU Qiang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators reported the successful epitaxial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists report creating pure hexagonal diamond, resolving a long debate about the rare meteorite mineral lonsdaleite. (CREDIT: ...