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.

Physicists have used the world's most powerful laser to zap diamonds. The results, they say, could tell us more about the cores of giant planets. "Diamonds have very special properties, besides being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists are trying to determine what happens to matter when it is exposed to the immense pressures at the center of gas giant planets and stars. And to help them figure it out, they have hit a tiny ...

The very center of the Earth has been described as the "last white spot" on our globe: a mysterious super-hot chamber that we know surprisingly little about. An X-ray beamline at the European ...