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 ...

The patented diamond-silicon carbide material from Coherent achieves isotropic thermal conductivity exceeding 800 W/m-K, and delivers twice the performance of copper, the current industry benchmark.

Importantly, the diamond nanothreads produced in this way are two-dimensional -- they're only one molecule thick, but infinitely long. [Research paper: doi:10.1038/nmat4088 - "Benzene-derived ...

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… ...

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.

Last month, AKHAN presented its Miraj Diamond prototype to Army officials in Chicago. They believe the material's heat dissipation will work well in directed energy systems - laser weapons. AKHAN ...

Researchers have synthesized a new material in a glassy state that can cause scratches on diamond, said a national key laboratory in Yanshan University, North China's Hebei province, on Saturday.