Rice University researchers see nanodiamonds created in coal
fade away in seconds
Images taken by Rice University scientists show that some
diamonds are not forever.
The Rice researchers behind a new study that explains the
creation of nanodiamonds in treated coal also show that some microscopic
diamonds only last seconds before fading back into less-structured forms of
carbon under the impact of an electron beam.
The research by Rice chemist Ed Billups and his colleagues
appears in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Physical Chemistry
Letters.