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 ...

Chemists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of a scientific collaboration and with the support of the federal program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation ...

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 ...