After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the ...
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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 ...
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Researchers create pure hexagonal diamonds that are harder than natural diamonds
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 ...
(Nanowerk News) The joint project “Deutsche Brilliance” (DE-Brill) aims to harness the special material properties of diamond and develop technologies for manufacturing and controlling diamond-based ...
Scientists have simulated the growth of diamond films to reveal geometrical properties and insights on how to grow these films more efficiently in the lab. Scientists have simulated the growth of ...
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Processing diamond surfaces with femtosecond lasers yields a trade-off between hydrophilicity and low defect rate.
“Top-down” diamond patterning methods, such as reactive ion etching, are difficult given the material’s chemical inertness.
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