Crystal formation follows a two-step process: messy, shapeless clumps of particles, or amorphous blobs, first come together ...

Pop quiz: what is the world’s hardest material? Answer: it’s diamond, of course. Thanks to the crystal structure of diamonds, with carbon atoms arranged into a lattice-like structure ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...

The crystal has a lattice parameter of 0.541 nm. The crystal structure is also known as diamond cubic and may be thought of as two interpenetrating fcc lattices, one for sulphur the other for zinc, ...