Aggregated diamond nanorods

Aggregated diamond nanorods, or ADNRs (also called "hyperdiamond"), are an allotrope of carbon believed to be the hardest and least compressible known material, as measured by its isothermal bulk modulus; aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), while a conventional diamond has a modulus of 442 GPa.^[1]

ADNRs are also 0.3% denser than regular diamond. The ADNR material is also harder than type IIa diamond and ultrahard fullerite.

A process to produce the substance was discovered by physicists in Germany, led by Natalia Dubrovinskaia, at the University of Bayreuth in 2005.^[2] ADNRs are made by compressing allotropic carbon fullerene molecules (generally 60 carbon atoms per molecule) to a pressure of 20 GPa, while at the same time heating to 2500 kelvin, using a unique 5000-metric-ton (50 MN) multi-anvil press. The resulting substance is a series of interconnected diamond nanorods, with diameters of between 5 and 20 nanometres and lengths of around 1 micrometre each.

A diamond anvil cell, located at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility at Grenoble, France, was used to measure the compressibility of the material.

See also

• Carbon nanotube
• Fullerite
• Diamond
• Rhenium diboride
• Mohs scale of mineral hardness

References

External links

• "Diamonds are not forever" at physicsweb.org.
• University of Bayreuth page on ADNRs (German)
• Photos of Aggregated diamond nanorods

v • d • e Allotropes of carbon sp3 forms Diamond (cubic) ♦ Lonsdaleite (hexagonal diamond) ♦ Aggregated diamond nanorods sp2 forms Graphite ♦ Amorphous carbon ♦ Fullerenes (buckyballs (C20+), nanotubes, nanobuds) ♦ Glassy carbon ♦ Carbon nanofoam sp forms Linear acetylenic carbon other forms C1 - C2 - C3 - C8 related Chaoite - Activated carbon - Carbon black - Charcoal - Carbon fiber - Fullerite

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