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Scientists have produced an oxide glass with unprecedented toughness. Under high pressures and temperatures, they succeeded in paracrystallizing an aluminosilicate glass: The resulting crystal-like structures cause the glass to withstand very high stresses and are retained under ambient conditions.
Could there be a new kid on the block for lab-created diamonds? Physicists at George Mason University in the US have created a new material called a paracrystalline diamond, which they claim to be a strong as natural diamonds and better able to withstand heat.
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with partners in China and the USA, have for the first time produced a carbon material that does not have the strictly ordered structures of a c ...