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Fantastic video on how synthetic diamonds are being made and the advancements in the industry:
Do we really want to use the word “groundbreaking” to describe advances in synthetic minerals?
Dad?
DeBeers says wtf
Everyone always thinks the jewelry when they think of diamonds but I am excited for the prospects of what cheap lab-grown diamonds can do for manufacturing. Diamonds are electrically insulative and yet 10 times more thermally conductive than copper. There are a LOT of industries that would be VERY interested in that.
Hell, it would probably be useful in CPU substrate as well. Instead of silicon semi conductor doping if these could be made precisely enough you could use diamond for the insulation layers and gain that insane heat transfer efficiency to help with avoiding Hotspots. Maybe that's too thin to matter that much not sure
Silicon carbide is much more interesting for the semiconductor industry. With pure carbon there is a lot of lattice mismatch between diamond and single crystal silicon which introduces strain and defects, both of which reduce yield in chip manufacturing.
Heavily used in the building industry too. Concrete saws, tile cutters etc, all expensive as fuck
Diamonds are the hardest mineral known to humans, it's what we use for all deep sea drilling and excavation.
Hey hey hey, don't break the ground. Are they insane?
The picture is a bit misleading, they are super tiny! Very cool thought.
Super tiny is fine for the things diamonds are used for besides sparkling on fingers.
Looking forward to a future when fake rhinestones are just kinda shit manufactured diamonds.
Looks like the diamond industry just wrote a new hit list
Similar conditions are employed in the method currently used to synthesize 99% of all artificially created diamonds. Called high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) growth, this method uses these extreme settings to coax carbon dissolved in liquid metals, like iron, to convert it to diamond around a small seed, or starter diamond.
Cool. I don't know how expensive this process is right now, but it seems cheaper to do, at least on mass production.
Edit: I wonder if they could make a tether out of this thing.
A tether for what?
For everything of course, from space exploration to clothing
Material science.
For a tether, I feel like you'd want something with a high tensile strength, like Kevlar or Zylon. Diamonds are very hard, but also brittle.
“Bender, be careful! Thats the ship’s diamond filament tether. It’s unbreakable!”
“Then why do I have to be careful?”
“It belonged to my grandmother.”