Publication in Matter

Our recent work on the graphite-diamond transition was published today in Matter.

Highlights

  • Both experiment and simulation were employed to study the graphite-diamond transition
  • The simulation suggests that diamond grows faster in graphite [120] than in [001]
  • This graphite-diamond interface model from simulation is consistent with experiments
  • The uncovered mechanism can be used to improve the synthetic diamond

Zhu S-C, Yan X-Z, Liu J., Oganov A. R., Zhu Q. (2020), A Revisited Mechanism of the Graphite-to-Diamond Transition at High Temperature, Matter