Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. “There are hundreds of claims from people who believe they have ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

(Nanowerk News) Shinichi Shikata (Deputy Director of Diamond Research Center and concurrently Leader), Hideyuki Watanabe (Research Scientist) and others of the Device R&D Team, the Diamond Research ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

In contrast to lithographic techniques, the LMU team uses a method called DNA origami to design and synthesize building blocks, which then self-assemble into a specific lattice structure. “It’s long ...