Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny amount of glassy carbon as starting material ...

Once a James Bond fantasy, diamond-based lasers are now becoming a reality. Once a James Bond fantasy, diamond-based lasers are now becoming a reality. Ground-breaking research is harnessing the ...

Carbon fibres have attracted interest from both the scientific and engineering communities due to their outstanding physical properties. Here we report that recently synthesized ultrathin diamond ...

Increasingly so, real or synthetic is often the question asked when speaking of diamonds. Also known as 'cultured' or 'lab-grown' diamonds, these gems are man-made but look just as exquisite as mined ...

Diamond is a form of pure carbon in which the atoms are arranged in a crystal lattice, with each carbon atom surrounded by four other carbons at the corners of a tetrahedron. The carbon-carbon bonds ...

Once a James Bond fantasy, diamond-based lasers are now becoming a reality. Ground-breaking research is harnessing the unique properties of diamonds to develop a new generation of lasers that could ...