The giant dielectric permittivity of detonation-produced nanodiamond is caused by water, say scientists from Russia and the UK. Nanodiamonds can be produced cheaply from explosions. The team found that just by adding water to the nanodiamonds, the materials see a huge increase in electronic properties, which means that they could be used for many electronic applications, such as in high performance capacitors for microelectronics and developing large-scale capacitance-based energy storage devices that are in demand in the quest for green energy technology. Read the article for free until 26th April.
Paper: Giant dielectric permittivity of detonation-produced nanodiamond is caused by water
Stepan Segreevich Batsanov and A Batsanov,
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2JM30836C
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