To make the new material -- which they say is harder than some forms of diamond – the team modified structure of cubic boron nitride by decreasing the size of the grains. Specifically, they ...

Diamond was previously the stiffest material known. The new material was made by a team from Washington State University and Wisconsin-Madison University, both in the US, and from Ruhr-University ...

This new material can obscure anything, no matter what angle it’s viewed from. So if a diamond were covered in it, its rigid features would be invisible.

MIT engineers have created a material that is 10 times blacker than anything else ever been reported, the school announced. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, w… ...