Scientists have turned plastic into diamonds. Using high-powered lasers, the team zapped samples of PET, the common material used in plastic bottles, to produce intense heat and pressure to form tiny ...

This illustration depicts a new technique that uses a pulsing laser to create synthetic nanodiamond films and patterns from graphite, with potential applications from biosensors to computer chips.

While diamond lasers have been around for a number of years, they have not been powerful enough to cut through steel until now. Since the recent improvement of CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) ...

Diamonds from plastic A powerful laser was fired at a thin piece of PET plastic, generating a shock wave that created nanodiamonds. (Courtesy: HZDR / Blaurock) Firing powerful laser pulses at pieces ...

Although lasers based on diamond have been around around for several years, they have never been very powerful. That's beginning to change now as new CVD fabrication methods provide larger, and purer, ...

Silicon-based materials are currently the undisputed leaders in the field of semiconductors. Even so, scientists around the world are actively trying to find superior alternatives for next-generation ...

t particle accelerator facilities around the world, scientists rely on powerful X-rays to reveal the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules. Now, researchers from the Department of Energy’s ...