"Artificial" diamonds.
Unless I've misread something, these are genuine diamonds. IE, carbon crystals.
"Artificial" makes people think of moissanite and similar materials.
Is this valuable? How much I can sell it
>The team applied pressure equal to 640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe
Tripe like this is does not help in making sense of the (now missing) numbers. What's the problem with something concrete like kg/sqcm?
Perhaps this will finally disrupt the expensive diamond buying for engagements.
The paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/smll.202004... (you need access to see all parameters).
Anyway it looks like they created a very tiny diamond. So it looks to me we should not expect man made diamond rings soon.
So they’ve made a new form of carbon, which may actually be harder than Diamond.