In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

The method successfully reproduced the distinctive crystal structures of both carbon (graphite and diamond) and silicon dioxide (low-quartz, low-cristobalite, and coesite). It worked.

ROCK crystal, quartz, the common crystallised form of dioxide of silicon SiO2, is, from many points of view, the most interesting of all minerals and the most instructive example of crystalline ...

The researchers validated their method by applying it to well-studied materials, successfully reproducing the unique crystal structures of carbon (graphite and diamond) and silicon dioxide (low ...