{"id":26772,"date":"2016-06-11T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tiny-diamonds-could-enable-huge-advances-in-nanotechnology"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:24","slug":"tiny-diamonds-could-enable-huge-advances-in-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tiny-diamonds-could-enable-huge-advances-in-nanotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Tiny diamonds could enable huge advances in nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-diamonds-could-enable-huge-advances-in-nanotechnology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The process begins with tiny, nanoscale diamonds that contain a specific type of impurity: a single nitrogen atom where a carbon atom should be, with an empty space right next to it, resulting from a second missing carbon atom. This \u201cnitrogen vacancy\u201d impurity gives each diamond special optical and electromagnetic properties.<\/p>\n<p>By attaching other materials to the diamond grains, such as metal particles or semiconducting materials known as \u201cquantum dots,\u201d the researchers can create a variety of customizable hybrid nanoparticles, including nanoscale semiconductors and magnets with precisely tailored properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you pair one of these diamonds with silver or gold nanoparticles, the metal can enhance the nanodiamond\u2019s optical properties. If you couple the nanodiamond to a semiconducting quantum dot, the hybrid particle can transfer energy more efficiently,\u201d said Min Ouyang, an associate professor of physics at UMD and senior author on the study.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160608095558.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160608095558.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process begins with tiny, nanoscale diamonds that contain a specific type of impurity: a single nitrogen atom where a carbon atom should be, with an empty space right next to it, resulting from a second missing carbon atom. This \u201cnitrogen vacancy\u201d impurity gives each diamond special optical and electromagnetic properties. By attaching other materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61540,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions\/61540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}