through a new approach to diamond formation. The team put graphite (another super-hard material) under an intense amount of ...

"The earlier paper was the first time that we directly saw diamond formation from any mixtures," Glenzer said "Since then, there have been quite a lot of experiments with different pure materials.

After Ruoff saw reports of carbon creation without a highly pressurized environment, he wanted to experiment with the ideal circumstances for diamond formation. “We thought that if we could find ...