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Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process
(www.livescience.com)
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Everyone always thinks the jewelry when they think of diamonds but I am excited for the prospects of what cheap lab-grown diamonds can do for manufacturing. Diamonds are electrically insulative and yet 10 times more thermally conductive than copper. There are a LOT of industries that would be VERY interested in that.
Hell, it would probably be useful in CPU substrate as well. Instead of silicon semi conductor doping if these could be made precisely enough you could use diamond for the insulation layers and gain that insane heat transfer efficiency to help with avoiding Hotspots. Maybe that's too thin to matter that much not sure
Heavily used in the building industry too. Concrete saws, tile cutters etc, all expensive as fuck
Diamonds are the hardest mineral known to humans, it's what we use for all deep sea drilling and excavation.
We'll be using that shit to mine asteroids in the next few hundred years or less. Crazy when you think about how far science has been going.
Silicon carbide is much more interesting for the semiconductor industry. With pure carbon there is a lot of lattice mismatch between diamond and single crystal silicon which introduces strain and defects, both of which reduce yield in chip manufacturing.