Synthesis Techniques, Properties, and Applications of Nanodiamonds

Abstract

Synthesis methods (ion and laser bombarding, CVD, hydrothermal, ultrasonic, electrochemical, and detonation techniques) for obtaining various forms of nanodiamonds (NDs) are generalized. Structure, physical and chemical properties, functionalization of NDs and composites on its basis are discussed, as well as their applications in medicine, electrochemistry, materials chemistry and technology.

Keywords:

• applications
• composites
• functionalization
• nanodia-monds

This review is dedicated to the 75th birthday (June 13, 2010) of M.Sc. Nadezhda V. Andreeva for her excellent contributions in the development of teaching processes at 23rd School (Moscow, Russia).

The authors are grateful to PAICyT-UANL (project 2009) for financial support, to Professors Guowei Yang (Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China), Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA), Masaki Ozawa and Anke Krueger (both from Institut fur Organische Chemie der Julius-Maximilians-Universitat, Wurzburg, Germany), Kian Ping Loh (National University of Singapore), Naomi J. Halas (Rice University, Houston, USA), Kuo Chu Hwang (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sergey K. Gordeev (Central Research Institute of Materials, Saint-Petersburg, Russia), as well as to Springer and the American Chemical Society for granted permissions to reproduce images from original publications.