A new form of carbon that rivals diamonds in its hardness, but has an amorphous structure similar to glass, has been produced under ultrahigh pressure in laboratory experiments. An amorphous diamond - ...

An amorphous diamond – one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard – has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers. But what good is an amorphous diamond?

An amorphous diamond - one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard - has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers. Graduate student Yu Lin loads glassy ...