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For 4-polytope, see <a href="/wiki/24-cell" title="24-cell">24-cell</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg/260px-Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg/390px-Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg/520px-Popigai_nanodiamonds.jpg 2x" data-file-width="899" data-file-height="434" /></a><figcaption>Natural nanodiamond aggregates from the <a href="/wiki/Popigai_impact_structure" title="Popigai impact structure">Popigai impact structure</a>, Siberia, Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-popigai_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popigai-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/260px-Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/390px-Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/520px-Natural_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg 2x" data-file-width="606" data-file-height="298" /></a><figcaption>Internal structure of the Popigai nanodiamonds.<sup id="cite_ref-popigai_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popigai-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/260px-Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/390px-Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg/520px-Synthetic_nanodiamond_TEM.jpg 2x" data-file-width="658" data-file-height="492" /></a><figcaption>Internal structure of synthetic nanodiamonds.<sup id="cite_ref-popigai_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popigai-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Aggregated diamond nanorods</b>, or <b>ADNRs</b>, are a <a href="/wiki/Nanocrystalline" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanocrystalline">nanocrystalline</a> form of <a href="/wiki/Diamond" title="Diamond">diamond</a>, also known as <b>nanodiamond</b> or <b>hyperdiamond</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery">Discovery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aggregated_diamond_nanorod&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nanodiamond or hyperdiamond was produced by compression of <a href="/wiki/Graphite" title="Graphite">graphite</a> in 2003 by a group of researchers in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> and in the same work, published in <i><a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)">Nature</a></i>, it was shown to be much harder than bulk diamond.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, it was also produced by compression of <a href="/wiki/Fullerene" title="Fullerene">fullerene</a> and confirmed to be the hardest and least compressible known material, with an <a href="/wiki/Isothermal_bulk_modulus" class="mw-redirect" title="Isothermal bulk modulus">isothermal bulk modulus</a> of 491 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">gigapascals</a> (GPa), while a conventional diamond has a modulus of 442–446 GPa; these results were inferred from <a href="/wiki/X-ray_diffraction" title="X-ray diffraction">X-ray diffraction</a> data, which also indicated that ADNRs are 0.3% denser than regular diamond.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same group later described ADNRs as "having a hardness and <a href="/wiki/Young%27s_modulus" title="Young's modulus">Young's modulus</a> comparable to that of natural diamond, but with 'superior wear resistance'".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hardness">Hardness</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aggregated_diamond_nanorod&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hardness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Miller_index" title="Miller index"><111></a> surface (normal to the largest diagonal of a cube) of pure diamond has a hardness value of 167±6 GPa when scratched with a nanodiamond tip, while the nanodiamond sample itself has a value of 310 GPa when tested with a nanodiamond tip. However, the test only works properly with a tip made of harder material than the sample being tested due to cracking. This means that the true value for nanodiamond is likely lower than 310 GPa.<sup id="cite_ref-blank_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blank-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to its hardness, a hyperdiamond could possibly exceed 10 on the <a href="/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohs scale of mineral hardness">Mohs scale of mineral hardness</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synthesis">Synthesis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aggregated_diamond_nanorod&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Synthesis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>ADNRs (hyperdiamonds/nanodiamonds) are produced by compressing fullerite powder—a solid form of <a href="/wiki/Allotropy" title="Allotropy">allotropic</a> carbon fullerene—by either of two somewhat similar methods. One uses a <a href="/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell" title="Diamond anvil cell">diamond anvil cell</a> and applied pressure ~37 GPa without heating the cell.<sup id="cite_ref-blank2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blank2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In another method, fullerite is compressed to lower pressures (2–20 GPa) and then heated to a temperature in the range of 300 to 2,500 K (27 to 2,227 °C).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Extreme hardness of what now appears likely to have been nanodiamonds was reported by researchers in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-blank_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blank-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-blank2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blank2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The material is a series of interconnected diamond nanorods, with diameters of between 5 and 20 <a href="/wiki/Nanometre" title="Nanometre">nanometres</a> and lengths of around 1 <a href="/wiki/Micrometre" title="Micrometre">micrometre</a> each.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linear_acetylenic_carbon" title="Linear acetylenic carbon">Linear acetylenic carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclo(6)carbon" title="Cyclo(6)carbon"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">6</sub></span></span></span> (cyclo[6]carbon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclo(18)carbon" title="Cyclo(18)carbon"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">18</sub></span></span></span> (cyclo[18]carbon)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>mixed sp<sup>3</sup>/sp<sup>2</sup> forms</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amorphous_carbon" title="Amorphous carbon">Amorphous carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_nanofoam" title="Carbon nanofoam">Carbon nanofoam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbide-derived_carbon" title="Carbide-derived carbon">Carbide-derived carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-carbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Q-carbon">Q-carbon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>other forms</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atomic_carbon" title="Atomic carbon"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">1</sub></span></span></span> (atomic carbon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diatomic_carbon" title="Diatomic carbon"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">2</sub></span></span></span> (diatomic carbon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tricarbon" title="Tricarbon"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">3</sub></span></span></span> (tricarbon)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>hypothetical forms</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyclopropatriene" title="Cyclopropatriene"><span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub 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title="Penta-graphene">Penta-graphene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>related</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Activated_carbon" title="Activated carbon">Activated carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_black" title="Carbon black">Carbon black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">Charcoal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_fibers" title="Carbon fibers">Carbon fiber</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Aggregated diamond nanorod</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐cc877b49b‐kvfjk Cached time: 20241127121226 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [vary‐revision‐sha1, show‐toc] CPU time usage: 0.677 seconds Real time usage: 0.857 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 3388/1000000 Post‐expand 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