{"id":224239,"date":"2025-10-30T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-faster-more-affordable-way-to-produce-quantum-nanodiamonds-holds-promise-for-medicine-and-industry"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:15:11","slug":"a-faster-more-affordable-way-to-produce-quantum-nanodiamonds-holds-promise-for-medicine-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-faster-more-affordable-way-to-produce-quantum-nanodiamonds-holds-promise-for-medicine-and-industry","title":{"rendered":"A faster, more affordable way to produce quantum nanodiamonds holds promise for medicine and industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPexVSaYuhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists from three continents led by Dr. Petr C\u00edgler of IOCB Prague has developed a method for creating light-emitting quantum centers in nanodiamonds in only a matter of minutes. In just one week, the process can yield as much material as conventional methods would produce in more than forty years.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the resulting nanodiamonds show improved optical and quantum properties. The breakthrough brings us one step closer to the industrial production of higher-quality and more affordable quantum nanodiamonds, which have broad applications in research and technology. The article is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202520907\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Advanced Functional Materials.<\/p>\n<p>The research team has introduced a new procedure called Pressure and Temperature Qubits (PTQ), which takes only four minutes. Diamond powder is placed in a press that generates extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high pressure<\/a> and temperature, reproducing the conditions found deep within Earth\u2019s mantle. Under these conditions, quantum centers are formed inside the nanodiamonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists from three continents led by Dr. Petr C\u00edgler of IOCB Prague has developed a method for creating light-emitting quantum centers in nanodiamonds in only a matter of minutes. In just one week, the process can yield as much material as conventional methods would produce in more than forty years. Moreover, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224239","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}