ANU Associate Professor Jodie Bradby said her team – including ANU PhD student Thomas Shiell and experts from RMIT, the University of Sydney and the United States – made nano-sized Lonsdaleite, which ...

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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 ...

In the case of lonsdaleite [hexagonla diamond], compression mechanism also caused bond-flipping, yielding an indentation strength of 152 GPa, which is 58 percent higher than the corresponding value of ...

Diamond will always be a girl’s best friend, but it may soon lose favour with industrial drillers. The gemstone lost its title of the “world’s hardest material” to man-made nanomaterials some time ago ...

According to research by U.S. and Chinese researchers, the world's hardest material is no longer diamond or nanomaterials. Lonsdaleite has taken over the top hardness spot here on Earth, and wertzite ...

A “folded diamond” doesn’t sound entirely plausible. But that’s exactly what we’ve found inside a rare group of meteorites known as ureilites, which likely came from the mantle of a dwarf planet or ...

According to research by U.S. and Chinese researchers, the world’s hardest material is no longer diamond or nanomaterials. Lonsdaleite has taken over the top hardness spot here on Earth, and wertzite ...