News30 June 2026
Nanodiamonds By Molecular Design
A team led by Yingke Wu and Tanja Weil at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research synthesized 3–4 nm nanodiamonds from nanographene building blocks under high pressure and temperature, publishing the results in Nature. The bottom-up method gives precise control over nanodiamond size and allows silicon- and germanium-based optical emitters to be incorporated during synthesis without post-processing, which is relevant for carbon-based quantum and photonic material development.