A replica of Russian Queen Catherine the Great’s imperial crown stole the show at this week’s Israeli diamond market in Ramat Gan, as the industry eyes a recovery.
Natural diamond miners are concerned synthetic diamonds may be falsely traded as precious organic gems, threatening consumer confidence in their product. Miners such as De Beers are taking steps to safeguard the sector, but what can be done?
Leonardo DiCaprio liked the lab-created diamonds from Bay Area firm Diamond Foundry so much, he invested in the company, for “cultivating real diamonds in America without the human and environmental toll of mining.”
With advances in material sciences and the ability to design composite parts with new virtual software technology, cutting tool manufacturers are being challenged to continually evolve and develop solutions for these versatile materials.
Harvard scientists announce they've created metallic hydrogen, which has been just a theory.
The global synthetic diamond market has been valued at USD 16.83 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach USD 23.8 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 7.14% during the forecast period, 2016-2021.
Diamond powder is harder than silicon carbide powder, and as one of superhard materials, has broader prospects with the development of advanced technology in the future. There are two reliable diamond powder manufacturers you should know
Floor pads quite literally cover a whole spectrum of products. There are black pads for stripping, green pads for scrubbing, red pads for buffing and many more colors and grades designed for specific tasks in between.
One of the major factors for this segment will be the rising usage of diamonds in sectors such as electronics, healthcare and construction among others. The other factors boosting the market are low cost of synthetic diamond as compared to natural diamond
Thanks to a Swiss company, which turns human ashes into diamonds, bereaved persons can now better honor their loved ones memory by having their ashes converted into beautiful diamonds.
If scientists are to be believed, synthetic diamonds can one day render global positioning systems redundant and also make driverless cars a reality. If that doesn't make diamonds everybody's best friend, we don't know what will!
‘Let’s be as creative as we can’, ” says Walter Hühn, chief executive of Element Six. He is describing how the company, based on a technology park near Didcot, encourages its workforce to come up with the best new uses for synthetic diamonds.
A team at Element Six, a tech company based in Oxfordshire, are exploring the remarkable properties of crystals with a so-called ‘nitrogen vacancy defect’ - a gap in the atomic lattice at the heart of the diamond.
Scientists have developed a way to mass-produce tiny diamond crystals shaped like needles and threads, which may power next generation of quantum computing.
Researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University have grown needle- and thread-like diamonds and studied their useful properties
Moissanite is a lab-created gemstone that is generally perceived as a diamond substitute by consumers. Moissanite is composed of silicon carbide and is created through a thermal process that is patented by Charles & Colvard Ltd.
The findings of Evan Smith, were recently published in “Science” . According to Smith’s research, these extra large diamonds were created from metal, using patches of liquid iron and gas located near Earth’s core.
You wouldn’t necessarily have assumed this to be the case, but myths associated with diamonds are actually quite prevalent. Here are 10 of the most common...
Every Christmas, Jeff Hurwitz surprises his wife with a different piece of jewelry from his store, Colonial Jewelers. His favorite gift to her was a natural diamond necklace he gave her on New Year’s Eve 1999, when everyone was talking about Y2K.
Delage suggested the most extravagant blue diamond in the world, "The Oppenheumer Blue" diamond, a 14.62 carat, Fancy Vivid blue emerald cut diamond from a De Beers mine valued at $57.5 million (although this diamond has since been sold