Nanometer-sized diamond particles are used in bio-medical applications, where the nature
of the nanodiamond surfaces is crucial to achieving correct functionalisation. Herein, using …

Although undoped diamond is insulating, hydrogenated bulk diamond surfaces exhibit
surface conductivity under air and are electrochemically active in aqueous solutions. Due to …

Detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) with a typical size of 5 nm have attracted broad interest
in science and technology. Further size reduction of DNDs would bring these nanoparticles …

Diamond materials span a wide range of attractive physical properties, including large
mechanical resistance, high thermal conductivity, and tunable optoelectronic behavior when …

The goal of this work is to gain fundamental understanding of the surface and internal
structure of functionalized detonation nanodiamonds (NDs) using quantum mechanics …

Hydrogenated detonation nanodiamonds are of great interest for emerging applications in
areas from biology and medicine to lubrication. Here, we compare the two main …

Although unpassivated detonation nanodiamonds are known to form tightly bound (and
sometimes ordered) superstructures, in most high performance applications the surface are …

Fluorescent nanodiamonds (NDs) are strong contenders as bio-labels for life science
imaging, diagnostics and therapeutics. Ultimately, for their use in biomedical applications …

Detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) are known to be produced in aggregated clusters of a
few nanometer‐sized primary crystalline particles embedded in an amorphous carbon …

Although nanocrystalline diamond powders have been produced in industrial quantities,
mainly by detonation synthesis, for many decades their use in applications other than …