Diamond makes for an extraordinary engineering material due to its remarkable physical and chemical properties spanning extreme ranges of capability. It has the best thermal conductivity of any ...

Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists at City University of Hong Kong have managed to stretch it further than ever before. Why? Stretching nanoscale samples changes their electronic ...

(Nanowerk News) Tomsk State University (TSU) physicists, working with scientists from Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Germany, and Korea, have discovered new nanomechanical properties of diamonds mined at ...