Diamonds can now be produced using the newly discovered third phase of carbon, which can make cheaper diamonds at room temperature via standard pressure. Diamonds are known to be rare and in this world, it can only be found in the core of the planet. 

Now, researchers from the North Carolina State University are now calling this new diamond, the "Q-carbon". Prior to this, there are only two solid forms of carbon which are graphite and diamond. Graphite can be commonly found however, diamonds are much rarer, making it a valuable precious stone.

Like Us on Facebook

Diamonds are produced when there is a substantial amount of heat and pressure under ideal conditions that can only occur inside Earth. This process and rare conditions have apparently not existed on Earth for more than 1 billion years.

Even under laboratory conditions, researchers who produce synthetic diamonds are still required to recreate these conditions for this process to work. This may appear rather intensive however NC State researchers were successful in producing diamonds without any geological or atmospheric modifications and replications.

According to lead researcher Jay Narayan of North Carolina State University, they can now create diamond nanoneedles or microneedles, nanodots or large area diamond films that can be applied for drug delivery and industrial processes. This can also be created for high temperature switches and power electronics. 

Narayan also reveals that the Q-carbon is harder than a diamond and can even glow upon exposure to small amounts of energy. This breakthrough discovery can even hold promise for new display technologies where further research is still needed to investigate its properties intensively.

Some companies have worked out how to produce cheap, synthetic diamonds however these companies still utilize high heat and pressure to produce these precious stones which is only mimicking the natural process of how diamonds are produced inside Earth.

To date, researchers are still conducting further studies to manipulate Q-carbon where they have now filed two provisional patents on the creation of Q-carbon and the diamond creation technique.

This breakthrough technique is published in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Tagsnew kind of diamond, third phase of carbon, diamonds, new substance harder than diamonds, new phase of carbon, synthetic diamonds, q-carbon, new diamond