{"id":178265,"date":"2023-12-14T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/embedding-nanodiamonds-in-polymer-can-advance-quantum-computing-and-biological-studies"},"modified":"2023-12-14T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:22:23","slug":"embedding-nanodiamonds-in-polymer-can-advance-quantum-computing-and-biological-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/embedding-nanodiamonds-in-polymer-can-advance-quantum-computing-and-biological-studies","title":{"rendered":"Embedding nanodiamonds in polymer can advance quantum computing and biological studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/embedding-nanodiamonds-in-polymer-can-advance-quantum-computing-and-biological-studies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the crystal structure of diamond, where a nitrogen atom replaces a carbon atom in the diamond lattice and a neighboring site in the lattice is vacant. This and other fluorescent defects in diamond, known as color centers, have attracted researchers\u2019 attention owing to their quantum properties, such as single-photon emission at room temperature and with long coherence time. Their many applications include quantum information encoding and processing, and cell marking in biological studies.<\/p>\n<p>Microfabrication in diamond is technically difficult, and nanodiamonds with color centers have been embedded in custom-designed structures as a way of integrating these quantum emitters into photonic devices. A study conducted at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s S\u00e3o Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC-USP) in Brazil has established a method for this, as described in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-4991\/13\/18\/2571\">article published<\/a> in the journal Nanomaterials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demonstrated a method of embedding fluorescent nanodiamonds in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microstructures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microstructures<\/a> designed for this purpose, using two-photon polymerization [2PP],\u201d Cleber Mendon\u00e7a, a professor at IFSC-USP and last author of the article, told Ag\u00eancia FAPESP. \u201cWe studied the ideal concentration of nanodiamond in the photoresist to achieve structures with at least one fluorescent NV center and good structural and optical quality.\u201d The photoresist is a light-sensitive material used in the fabrication process to transfer nanoscale patterns to the substrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the crystal structure of diamond, where a nitrogen atom replaces a carbon atom in the diamond lattice and a neighboring site in the lattice is vacant. This and other fluorescent defects in diamond, known as color centers, have attracted researchers\u2019 attention owing to their quantum properties, such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178265","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}