Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting graphite to extreme pressure and heat, researchers synthesized a rare ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new ...

Led by Liu Bingbing and Yao Mingguang from Jilin University, the researchers discovered that by heating highly compressed graphite, it can transform into a hexagonal diamond. This synthetic ...

Researchers have revealed new insights into rhombohedral stacking in graphene, reporting on how it behaves as a semiconductor ...

The lab-grown diamond in question is of the hexagonal variety, and was created by heating highly compressed graphite. Using this approach, the team made a millimeter-sized hexagonal diamond that ...

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"Theoretical calculations suggest that HD [hexagonal diamond] may even surpass ... However, in the process, they ended up with a lot of graphite and diamonds too. In the new work, the team used ...

More information: Desi Chen et al, General approach for synthesizing hexagonal diamond by heating post-graphite phases, Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02126-9 ...

“Our findings offer valuable insights regarding the graphite-to-diamond conversion ... Laboratory in the US also reported creating hexagonal diamonds, SCMP reported. They said the material ...