Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting ...

First identified in 1967, lonsdaleite is the hardest naturally-occuring mineral ever discovered—yes, it’s even harder than diamonds. Lonsdaleite, however, has only been found in meteorites ...

Today, most people admire diamonds for two exceptional attributes: their hardness and their brilliance. Scholars knew of diamonds' unrivaled hardness since antiquity, but its unique optical ...

The researchers, led by Liu Bingbing and Yao Mingguang from China’s Jilin University, say the diamond’s excellent thermal stability and ultra-high hardness mean it could have ‘great ...

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could lead to breakthroughs across several key industries that rely on ...

In a recent correspondence on hardness 1, several assertions were made, some of which are incorrect and some are misleading. First, the title “What does 'harder than diamond' mean?”, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Synthetic diamonds with a hexagonal lattice have been developed, exhibiting greater hardness than natural diamonds. The process involves heating and compressing ...