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Scientists Defy Nature to make Insta-bling at Room Temperature

Scientists defy nature to make insta-bling at room temperature
The RMIT team’s pictures showed that the regular diamonds only form in the middle of these Lonsdaleite veins under this new method developed by the cross-institutional team. Credit: RMIT

An international team of scientists has defied nature to make diamonds in minutes in a laboratory at room temperature – a process that normally requires billions of years, huge amounts of pressure and super-hot temperatures.

The team, led by The Australian National University (ANU) and RMIT University, made two types of diamonds: the kind found on an engagement ring and another type of diamond called Lonsdaleite, which is found in nature at the site of meteorite impacts such as Canyon Diablo in the US.

One of the lead researchers, ANU Professor Jodie Bradby, said their breakthrough shows that Sup...

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