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 ...

Prof. Wu HengAn’s team from University of Science and Technology of China have presented six representative phases of amorphous carbons based on large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, ...

Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material. Diamond — hard, sparkling and bright — has been revered for thousands of years as a gemstone. Nowadays it is also widely ...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to relieve the internal stresses of amorphous, or noncrystalline, diamond films, creating improved protection for metal and plastic ...

Material scientists in China experimenting with carbon in its many forms have conjured up a form of glass so hard that it can scratch the surface of a diamond. As reported by the South China Morning ...

(Nanowerk News) Many substances with different chemical and physical properties, from diamonds to graphite, are made up of carbon atoms. Amorphous forms of solid carbon do not have a fixed crystal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2017 -- Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny ...