A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a ...

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...

The work is published in the journal Nature Communications. The material, called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), is used in semiconductor devices and can also enhance the performance of other two ...

Hexagonal close packing is one of two crystal structures that derive from stacking close-packed-planes of hard sphere atoms. In the HCP structure only two stacking ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example ...

Large molecules with multiple binding sites can be flexible, but the impact of this flexibility on network formation hasn’t ...