Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example ...

A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a ...

For the first time, scientists have observed one of these exotic phases: Plastic Ice VII. “Plastic phases are hybrid states ...

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Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

The synthetic hexagonal diamond exhibits high thermal stability up to 1,100°C and a hardness of 155 GPa, promising advancements in aerospace and defense industries.

Minimising semiconductor flaws will expand China's price gap with US for advanced chips used in electronic warfare, aerospace Researchers in China say they have pinpointed the main cause of defects in ...

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...