Artificial diamonds creation process generating lonsdaleite

by bleairon 11/20/20, 8:29 AMwith 61 comments
by Synaesthesiaon 11/20/20, 11:27 AM

So they’ve made a new form of carbon, which may actually be harder than Diamond.

by billpgon 11/20/20, 9:48 AM

"Artificial" diamonds.

Unless I've misread something, these are genuine diamonds. IE, carbon crystals.

"Artificial" makes people think of moissanite and similar materials.

by Marihamon 11/29/20, 4:32 AM

Is this valuable? How much I can sell it

by _0ffhon 11/20/20, 9:32 AM

>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?

by apples_orangeson 11/20/20, 9:04 AM

Perhaps this will finally disrupt the expensive diamond buying for engagements.

by thdrdton 11/20/20, 10:50 AM

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.