The growth and characteristics of nanocrystalline diamond thin films with thicknesses from
20 nm to less than 5 µm are reviewed. These materials contain between 95% and> 99.9 …

The aim of this review is to highlight the recent advances and the main remaining
challenges related to the issue of electron field emission (FE) from nanodiamonds. The …

A broad array of water-insoluble compounds has displayed therapeutically relevant
properties toward a spectrum of medical and physiological disorders, including cancer and …

Design and synthesis of new carbon allotropes have always been important topics in
condensed matter physics and materials science. Here we report a new carbon allotrope …

A boron-doped diamond (BDD) has been widely used as an outstanding electrode for
constructing high-performance electrochemical biosensors. In this paper, we fabricated a …

We report the growth of ultrathin diamond nanorods (DNRs) by a microwave plasma
assisted chemical vapor deposition method using a mixture gas of nitrogen and methane …

Microstructural evolution as a function of substrate temperature (TS) for conducting
ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films is systematically studied. Variation of the sp 2 …

Hybrid diamond/sp 2-C nanostructures have aroused growing interests in electrochemistry
currently owing to the good chemical/physical properties, including high electrical …

Creation of the hybrid nanostructures with superior properties that combine the advantages
of hardest diamond and flexible graphite remains challenging in experiment. Here we report …

Abstract C (sp3) C‐bonded diamond nanowires are wide band gap semiconductors that
exhibit a combination of superior properties such as negative electron affinity, chemical …