Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

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 ...

The diamond was around 0.04 inches in size and exhibited more sturdiness and resistance compared to typical cubic diamonds.

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

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

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

Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a theorised rare variant of superstrong diamond found in meteorites from shattered dwarf planets, ...