Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists at City University of Hong Kong have managed to stretch it further than ever before. Why? Stretching nanoscale samples changes their electronic ...

Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny amount of glassy carbon as starting material ...

Diamond is the hardest of all single-phase materials with hardness values around 100 GPa, depending on the crystalline direction. The hardness values for polycrystalline diamond (PCD) films range from ...

Diamond composites have emerged as critical materials in cutting, drilling and other high-performance applications due to their exceptional hardness and wear resistance. Recent work has focused on ...