Neutron diffraction studies of nano-diamond particles

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Nano-diamond particles are synthesised by detonation of TNT and Hexogen, resulting in a shockwave which produces diamond nanoparticles with an average size of around 5 nm, aggregated by non-diamond carbon into larger (>100 nm) agglutinates. Recently it has been shown that these large aggregates can be broken down into core particles by simply annealing in hydrogen gas and that the rate that these particles are broken down is influenced by the size of the nano-diamonds. In order to explain this effect we need to understand the nature of the surface hydrogen bonding to this diamond/non-diamond matrix. Specifically, we need to understand if the hydrogen bonding is predominantly to sp2 or sp3 carbon and the influence of particle size. We will prepare 4 samples that will allow us to investigate the degree of surface hydrogenation in nano-scale diamond.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42581921
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42581921
Provenance
Creator Dr Oliver Williams; Dr Martin Jones; Dr Ron Smith
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-07T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-10T09:31:47Z