The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

Diamonds form deep within the Earth’s mantle under pressures above 5 GPa and temperatures exceeding 900 °C. Their genesis is governed by interactive processes within peridotitic and eclogitic domains, ...

Controlling phase transition processes and the atomic structure of new states with light has emerged as a highly challenging frontiers in condensed matter physics and materials science. The conversion ...

Molten carbon can crystallize into diamond or graphite, but it has been difficult to study this process. New simulations show that graphite can sometimes "hijack" the pathway that would lead to ...