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Making diamonds at ambient pressure - EurekAlert


A team of researchers led by Director Rod RUOFF at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), including graduate students at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), have grown diamonds under conditions of 1 atmosphere pressure and at 1025 &deg;C using a liquid metal alloy composed of gallium, iron, nickel, and silicon, <em>thus breaking the existing paradigm</em>. The discovery of this new growth method opens many possibilities for further basic science studies and for scaling up the growth of diamonds in new ways.

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