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AssigneeThe Penn State Research Foundation
InventorsAngela Lueking, Humberto Gutierrez, Deepa Narayanan, Caroline E. Burgess Clifford, Puja Jain
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Methods of synthesizing a diamond material, particularly nanocrystalline diamond, diamond-like carbon and bucky diamond are provided. In particular embodiments, a composition including a carbon source, such as coal, is subjected to addition of energy, such as high energy reactive milling, producing a milling product enriched in hydrogenated tetrahedral amorphous diamond-like carbon compared to the coal. A milling product is treated with heat, acid and/or base to produce nanocrystalline diamond and/or crystalline diamond-like carbon. Energy is added to produced crystalline diamond-like carbon in particular embodiments to produce bucky diamonds.
A process for synthesizing a diamond material, comprising:
A process for synthesizing a synthetic crystalline diamond-like carbon material;
A process for synthesizing a nanocrystalline diamond;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.