Amorphous diamond synthesized
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Washington, DC— A team of Carnegie high-pressure physicists have created a form of carbon that’s hard as diamond, but amorphous, meaning it lacks the large-scale structural repetition of a diamond’s crystalline structure. Their findings are reported in Nature Communications. Carbon is an element of seemingly infinite possibilities, because the configuration of its electrons allows …