MADISON - A discovery reported in the August 5 issue of Science could speed the design of materials that approach the hardness of diamond yet remain supple enough to be worked like metal. In a massive ...

A team of scientists has developed a substance so tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, which are considered the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth — a discovery they say could ...

Diamonds are fascinating - as jewellery but also because of the extreme hardness of the material. How exactly this variant of carbon is formed deep underground and under extremely high pressures and ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — July 14, 2009—sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc., (www.sp3diamondtech.com) a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, today announced that its chemical ...

TPU researchers have developed a new gradient microarchitecture for diamond coatings. It consists of smoothly alternating ...