Diamonds can act like metals in devices
Researchers use strain to transform diamonds into conductors Metal Tech News – October 28, 2020
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Best known for their radiant beauty, diamonds are excellent electrical insulators. By bending diamonds at the nanoscale, they can be transformed into conductors similar to metals.
Diamonds are well known as the hardest minerals on earth. The sparkling gemstones also are exceptional thermal conductors and electrical insulators.
Now, an international team of researchers says diamonds have yet another distinction – they can exhibit the properties of metals.
The discovery, first reported Oct. 5 in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," could write a new cha...
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