Researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have discovered that massive icy planets could have diamond rain, thus uncovering a new path to make nanodiamonds right here on Earth. The team replicated the extreme temperatures and pressures found deep inside ice giants Neptune / Uranus and, for the first time ever, observed diamond rain as it formed.
This observation offers a more complete picture of how diamond rain forms on other planets and, here on Earth, could eventually pave the way to fabricating nanodiamonds. The latter boasts a very wide array of practical applications in drug delivery, medical sensors, noninvasive surgery, sustainable manufacturing, as well as quantum electronics. Speaking of diamonds, this small diamond wafer can be used to store up to 25 exabytes.
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The earlier paper was the first time that we directly saw diamond formation from any mixtures. Since then, there have been quite a lot of experiments with different pure materials. But inside planets, it’s much more complicated; there are a lot more chemicals in the mix. And so, what we wanted to figure out here was what sort of effect these additional chemicals have,” said Siegfried Glenzer, director of the High Energy Density Division at SLAC.
