A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for massively producing ultrathin and ultra-flexible diamond membranes. A research team led by Professor Zhiqin Chu, Associate Professor in the ...

HOUSTON – (May 23, 2025) – Diamond is one of the most prized materials in advanced technologies due to its unmatched hardness, ability to conduct heat and capacity to host quantum-friendly defects.

Researchers in Japan have developed a new method for making 5-cm (2-in) wafers of diamond that could be used for quantum memory. The ultra-high purity of the diamond allows it to store a staggering ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Department of Conservation. Lachie Scarsbrook does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

The famous marketing slogan about how a diamond is forever may only be a slight exaggeration for a diamond-based system capable of storing information for millions of years – and now researchers have ...

Researchers discovered that instead of high-temperature annealing, growing an extra epilayer of diamond atop the substrate after ion implantation is enough to turn the damaged layer graphite-like.