Diamond’s Downfall: The Quantum World’s Next Top Material
Diamond has long held the crown in the realm of quantum sensing, thanks to its coherent nitrogen-vacancy centers, adjustable spin, magnetic field sensitivity, and capability…
Diamonds News
Diamonds are cubic hexoctahedral crystals made purely of Carbon. They have the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material and can show pressure in geological processes as well as be used to create lasers in their nano form. Find out the many ways scientists take advantage of the properties of this expensive mineral at SciTechDaily.com.
From Waste Pile to Diamond Discovery: How a Humble Piece of Rock Solved a Long-Standing Diamond Mystery
Two researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have utilized a simple laptop computer and a piece of rock, obtained from a diamond mine’s “waste…
An Underground Ocean? Scientists Discover Water Deep Within Earth
An international research team led by a Goethe University professor analyzes diamond inclusions. An international study confirms that the Earth’s transition zone (TZ), located between…
Scientists Successfully Create Diamonds Out of Bottle Plastic
A research team utilizes laser flashes to replicate the interior of ice planets, which inspires a new method of creating tiny diamonds. What transpires inside…
Researchers Discover a “Diamond Factory” Deep Inside Earth
Researchers find rust and diamonds at the Earth’s core-mantle boundary. On the Earth’s surface, steel rusts due to water and air. But what about deep…
Scientists Say These Mysterious Diamonds Came From Outer Space
Strange diamonds from an ancient dwarf planet in our solar system may have formed shortly after the dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid about…
Scientists Discover Surprising Applications of Nanodiamonds
A physical chemist and a diverse group of his students are working on applications with nanoscopic diamonds. Diamonds represent so much more to Abraham Wolcott…
Nanodiamonds Are Key to Efficient Hydrogen Purification – And a Zero-Carbon Future
Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Climate change. Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, leaves nothing…
Are We Standing on a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds? [Video]
There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the farthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could…
Creating Dynamic Symmetry in Diamond Crystals To Improve Qubits for Quantum Computing
MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers. Physicists and engineers…
Ancient Diamonds Show Earth Was Primed for Life’s Explosion of Diversity at Least 2.7 Billion Years Ago
A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth’s atmosphere which makes it suitable for life’s explosion of…
Popigai: Russia’s Crater of Diamonds – Estimated To Contain “Trillions of Carats”
Popigai is one of the largest and most well-preserved impact craters on Earth. About 36 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into northern Siberia and…
A Billion-Plus Years of Deep-Earth History Hidden Within African Diamonds
Diamonds are sometimes described as messengers from the deep earth; scientists study them closely for insights into the otherwise inaccessible depths from which they come….
Diamonds That Formed Deep in the Earth’s Mantle Contain Evidence of Deep-Earth Recycling Processes
Findings allow us to trace how minerals from the surface are drawn down into the mantle. Diamonds that formed deep in the Earth’s mantle contain…
Stiff Competition: Lab-Made Hexagonal Diamonds Stiffer Than Natural Cubic Diamonds
Nature’s strongest material now has some stiff competition. For the first time, researchers have hard evidence that human-made hexagonal diamonds are stiffer than the common…
Scientists Use Nanoscale Diamonds to Generate More Efficient Accelerator Beams
Beam-driven wakefield acceleration approaches are promising candidates for future large-scale machines, including X-ray free electron lasers and linear colliders, as they have the potential to…
Photoconductive Diamond Switches: Diamonds Are Not Just for Jewelry Anymore
When it comes to the semiconductor industry, silicon has reigned as king in the electronics field, but it is coming to the end of its…
Natural Nanodiamonds in Oceanic Rocks – Formed Through Low Pressure and Temperature Geological Processes
Natural diamonds can form through low pressure and temperature geological processes on Earth, as stated in an article published in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters….