Scientists are developing a unique technique for making diamonds

Diamonds

Scientists have developed a method to make small diamonds quickly and easily with little heat and without stimulation.

    The technique involves extracting cage-like particles from oil and natural gas and then heating them with laser under extreme pressure.However, diamond applications made with this technology may be limited, as the technology is unable to make gemstones larger than the width of a human hair.

The main author of the research and geologist, Rodney Ewing, from Stanford University in California, said that the interesting thing about this research is that it shows a way to deceive the thermodynamics of what is usually required to form diamonds.

Natural diamonds are formed from buried carbon hundreds of kilometers underground, where heat reaches thousands of degrees Celsius. Precious stones move up to the surface through volcanic activity, bringing with them ancient minerals that can shed light on the deep conditions inside the Earth's interior. Diamonds are time for samples to be recovered from the deepest parts of the earth, said Wendy Mao, Stanford University's mineralologist, who leads the laboratory where Professor Ewing and his colleagues have conducted most of the research.

In contrast, scientists were interested in the processes that could be used to make diamonds in the laboratory, so that they could ultimately help in adopting the unique properties of gemstones with other applications. Diamonds are defined as being extremely hard, transparent, chemically stable and transferring heat efficiently, properties that can find countless uses, especially in medicine, biological sensing, quantum computing devices, and general industry.

Experts have been producing synthetic diamonds for more than 6 decades, but traditional methods of installing diamonds usually require massive amounts of energy and time, or adding a catalyst that reduces the resulting materials. We wanted to see just a clean system in which one substance turns into pure diamonds without a catalyst," said lead researcher and geologist Solgay Park. In their studies, team members started with samples of rock salt-like powder, which they refined from fossil fuel oil. Unlike real diamonds, which are made of pure carbon, the diamonds contain hydrogen atoms

    Starting with these basic building blocks, we can make diamonds more quickly," Mao said, adding, "We can also learn about the diamond formation process in a more complete and deep way than if we simulated only the high pressure and high temperature found in a part of the Earth, where diamonds are formed. Normally".

    Although the new technique imposes restrictions on the size of the sample in the sense that only very small samples of diamonds can be created, scientists note: "We now know more about the keys to making pure diamonds but they are after modest information.