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 ...

Nuclear reactors – both old and new designs – use a lot of graphite as it is a key component. It is also one of the components in a reactor that gets deformed due to the radiation. The reason behind ...

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 ...