{"id":225685,"date":"2025-11-22T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/lab-grown-diamond-coatings-shown-to-prevent-mineral-scale-in-industrial-pipes"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:19:18","slug":"lab-grown-diamond-coatings-shown-to-prevent-mineral-scale-in-industrial-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/lab-grown-diamond-coatings-shown-to-prevent-mineral-scale-in-industrial-pipes","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown diamond coatings shown to prevent mineral scale in industrial pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-diamond-coatings-shown-to-prevent-mineral-scale-in-industrial-pipes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale collects inside a kettle \u23af only on a far larger and more expensive scale. Mineral scaling is a major issue in water and energy systems, where it slows flow, strains equipment and drives up costs.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c13554\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> by Rice University engineers shows that lab-grown diamond coatings could resolve the issue, providing an alternative to chemical additives and mechanical cleaning, both of which offer only temporary relief and carry environmental or operational downsides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of these limitations, there is growing interest in materials that can naturally resist scale formation without constant intervention,\u201d said Xiang Zhang, assistant research professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a first author on the study alongside Rice postdoctoral researcher Yifan Zhu. \u201cOur work addresses this urgent need by identifying a coating material that can \u2018stay clean\u2019 on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale collects inside a kettle \u23af only on a far larger and more expensive scale. Mineral scaling is a major issue in water and energy systems, where it slows flow, strains equipment and drives up costs. A new study by Rice University engineers shows that lab-grown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225685","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}