A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

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

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

Atomic structure of the hexagonal diamond. Image from the study. Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

Scientists create first-of-its-kind ‘hexagonal diamond’ harder than real thing - Material exhibits slightly higher hardness than naturally found diamond ...

A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...

“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the ...

After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s ...