Scientists created a pure hexagonal diamond in the lab, confirming a long-debated carbon structure slightly harder than natural diamonds.

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale, but for decades, no one was sure it truly existed. For 60 years, the material had only been reported in meteorite impact ...

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Military conflict in the Middle East has led to significant disruption in global supply chains, resulting in significantly increased costs for raw materials and logistics WACKER will therefore ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

The sector is experiencing early signs of supply-chain disruptions from the war in the Middle East, with risks spreading ...

Africa’s critical minerals will either entrench the old pattern of extraction without development or become the foundation of ...