Specialists of the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanical (ISSCM) SB RAS have developed a synthetic diamond production technology, which allows you to make them a thousand times faster and much faster than in the methods used today.
He told reporters Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Laboratory ISSCM SB RAS Boris Talochka.
"In our institute, we are preparing the starting material, which is placed in a special chamber, where it are working temperature of about 5 thousand. Degrees and a pressure of about one million atmospheres. Obtained diamonds "- Talochka said.
Artificial diamonds made today, including the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, according to Talochka, technology developed ISSCM can significantly speed up the process by reducing the "growth" of stone from the month to a fraction of a second. In addition, due to a cheaper starting material, this method can reduce the cost of artificial diamonds of millions to several tens of thousand.
According to him, based on the carbonaceous material adamantane. Its crystal lattice very similar to the diamond crystal lattice, except that some of the atoms it contains hydrogen atoms. When exposed to form diamond and the free hydrogen is released. Now scientists are working to develop diversion of hydrogen technologies, so that it does not interfere with the process of the formation of diamonds.
In parallel, he said Talochka, work is underway to increase the size of the diamonds produced.
At the moment, developers managed to produce diamonds in size to several microns, which is sufficient for the needs of the microelectronics industry, and the experimental. However, the scientists want to get more large stones, which can be used in jewelry.
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