Diamonds Can Turn Flexible when Made into Nanoscale Needles
Apr 20, 2018 by News Staff / Source
An international team of researchers from Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and the United States has demonstrated that nanoscale (300 nm) single-crystalline and polycrystalline diamond needles could flex and stretch by as much as 9% without breaking, then return to their original configuration. The team’s results, published in the journal Science, could open the door to a variety of diamond-based devices for applications such as sensing, data storage, actuation, biocompatible in vivo imaging, optoelectronics, and drug delivery.
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