Diamond is more than just a pretty gem – it has many attractive properties that stretch far beyond its aesthetic appeal. Matthew Markham and Daniel Twitchen explain how this special form of carbon now ...

(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 ...

Publishing in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IJEM), researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Guizhou University and ...

Qubits through color centers in diamond "In the SPINNING project, we want to make an important contribution to the German quantum technology ecosystem. To this end, we are using the material ...

Simple bending of diamond nanoneedles can reversibly convert diamond from an electrical insulator to a metal-like conductor, a study finds. Recent studies have shown that nanoscale diamond needles can ...

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

Graphene's enduring appeal lies in its remarkable combination of lightness, flexibility, and strength. Now, researchers have shown that under pressure, it can briefly take on the traits of one of its ...

Asteroid impacts are usually seen as cataclysmic events and that's not entirely shocking, as one such episode some 65 million years ago wiped dinosaurs off the face of the Earth (via USGS).