{"id":115279,"date":"2020-10-29T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/team-finds-path-to-nanodiamond-from-graphene"},"modified":"2020-10-29T18:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:25:29","slug":"team-finds-path-to-nanodiamond-from-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/team-finds-path-to-nanodiamond-from-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Team finds path to nanodiamond from graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-finds-path-to-nanodiamond-from-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better.<\/p>\n<p>While it may only take a bit of heat to turn a treated bilayer of the ultrathin material into a cubic lattice of diamane, a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pressure<\/a> in just the right place can convert few-layer graphene as well.<\/p>\n<p>The otherwise chemically driven process is theoretically possible according to scientists at Rice University, who published their most recent thoughts on making high-quality diamane\u2014the 2-D form of diamond\u2014in the journal <i>Small<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better. While it may only take a bit of heat to turn a treated bilayer of the ultrathin material into a cubic lattice of diamane, a bit of pressure in just the right place can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}