The Singapore-based company IIa Technologies, which produces synthetic diamonds, recently organized its first round table titled "The Future of Growth in a Diamond Laboratory," dedicated to production technologies and the possible high-tech application of grown diamonds, the company said in a press release.
At the round table, which took place behind closed doors, there were 14 well-known scientists and professors engaged in the production and application of laboratory diamonds.
The central topic of discussion was the latest achievements in science, as well as the goals, tasks and tests that await the synthetic diamond industry in the future. One of the topics of the meeting was the term "synthetic", which describes diamonds grown in the laboratory.
"In general, it is clear that the term" synthetic diamond "is technically and scientifically incorrect with respect to diamonds grown in the laboratory.Within our discussion of the technology of chemical deposition from the gas phase and its application to growing diamonds, we came to the conclusion that more the exact definition will be "grown diamond," because the physical and chemical properties of the diamonds created and mined in the mine coincide, "said Dr. Devi Shanker Misra, Chief Technical Officer of IIa Technologies.
Experts from the United States, Belgium, Russia and Taiwan gathered round the table and agreed that the diamond industry in the laboratory has excellent prospects for growth, and the next step in this direction should be to improve the quality and size of synthetic diamonds, so that they can find a much wider range of scientific applications.
After the success of the first round table on the problems of diamonds grown in the laboratory, IIa Technologies plans to hold several similar meetings in the near future, at which well-known scientists and professors engaged in the production and use of laboratory diamonds could attend.