Facile diamond synthesis from lower diamondoids

Autor: Jin Liu, Eran Greenberg, Wendy L. Mao, Chunjing Jia, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Liuxiang Yang, Iwnetim Abate, Rodney C. Ewing, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Chenxu Wang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Sulgiye Park, Yu Lin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Science Advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Popis: Diamondoids are promising precursors for facile diamond synthesis using laser-induced high-pressure, high-temperature conditions.
Carbon-based nanomaterials have exceptional properties that make them attractive for a variety of technological applications. Here, we report on the use of diamondoids (diamond-like, saturated hydrocarbons) as promising precursors for laser-induced high-pressure, high-temperature diamond synthesis. The lowest pressure and temperature (P-T) conditions that yielded diamond were 12 GPa (at ~2000 K) and 900 K (at ~20 GPa), respectively. This represents a substantially reduced transformation barrier compared with diamond synthesis from conventional (hydro)carbon allotropes, owing to the similarities in the structure and full sp3 hybridization of diamondoids and bulk diamond. At 20 GPa, diamondoid-to-diamond conversion occurs rapidly within
Databáze: OpenAIRE