Jan 19, 2017
Engineers Australia : New lab-made diamond at mining’s cutting-edge
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: materials, nanotechnology
Australia getting their QC production lines ready with this advancement. BTW — get ready as the printers are coming soon.
The Australian National University (ANU) has led an international team to create a nano-sized diamond that’s harder than the natural gem and which will be useful for cutting through super-hard mining materials.
ANU Associate Professor Jodie Bradby said her team, including ANU PhD student Thomas Shiell and experts from RMIT, the University of Sydney and the United States, fabricated nano-sized Lonsdaleite, which is a hexagonal diamond only found in nature at meteorite impact sites, such as in Arizona’s Canyon Diablo.
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