https://it-news.uk/tags/nanotechnology/ Recent content in Nanotechnology on IT News Hugo en-us Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/chinese-scientists-diamond-friction-breakthrough/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/chinese-scientists-diamond-friction-breakthrough/ <p>For more than a century, friction scientists have held a quiet consensus: when you rub carbon-based materials together, they turn into graphite. Diamond formation under those conditions was considered impossible — it required the crushing heat and pressure of deep earth or industrial reactors.</p> <p>A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences just proved that consensus wrong.</p> <p>Researchers at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics designed a two-dimensional &ldquo;sandwich&rdquo; structure using layered materials that traps carbon debris between its sheets during friction. Under the right conditions, that trapped carbon converts into diamond — with conversion rates reaching 38.5%.</p>