Investigation of Room Temperature Formation of the Ultra-Hard Nanocarbons Diamond and Lonsdaleite

McCulloch, Dougal G.; Wong, Sherman; Shiell, Thomas B.; Haberl, Bianca; Cook, Brenton A.; Huang, Xingshuo; Boehler, Reinhard; McKenzie, David R.; Bradby, Jodie E.

doi:10.1002/smll.202004695

Investigation of Room Temperature Formation of the Ultra-Hard Nanocarbons Diamond and Lonsdaleite

Journal Article · Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Small

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202004695· OSTI ID:1709105

^[1]; Wong, Sherman ^[1]; Shiell, Thomas B. ^[2]; ^[3]; Cook, Brenton A. ^[1]; Huang, Xingshuo ^[2]; Boehler, Reinhard ^[3]; McKenzie, David R. ^[4]; Bradby, Jodie E. ^[2]

RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Sydney, NSW (Australia)

Diamond is an attractive material due to its extreme hardness, high thermal conductivity, quantum optical, and biomedical applications. There is still much that is not understood about how diamonds form, particularly at room temperature and without catalysts. Here, a new route for the formation of nanocrystalline diamond and the diamond-like phase lonsdaleite is presented. Both diamond phases are found to form together within bands with a core-shell structure following the high pressure treatment of a glassy carbon precursor at room temperature. The crystallographic arrangements of the diamond phases revealed that shear is the driving force for their formation and growth. This study gives new understanding of how shear can lead to crystallization in materials and helps elucidate how diamonds can form on Earth, in meteorite impacts and on other planets. Finally, the new shear induced formation mechanism works at room temperature, a key finding that may enable diamond and other technically important nanomaterials to be synthesized more readily.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Australian Research Council (ARC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; FG02-94ER14466; NA0001974

OSTI ID:: 1709105

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1745047
OSTI ID: 1786565

Journal Information:: Small, Journal Name: Small Journal Issue: 50 Vol. 16; ISSN 1613-6810

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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