High-Pressure Synthesis of Boron-Doped Ultrasmall Diamonds from an Organic Compound

Evgeny A Ekimov; Oleg S Kudryavtsev; Andrey A Khomich; Oleg I Lebedev; Tatiana A Dolenko; Igor I Vlasov

doi:10.1002/adma.201502672

High-Pressure Synthesis of Boron-Doped Ultrasmall Diamonds from an Organic Compound

Adv Mater. 2015 Oct 7;27(37):5518-22. doi: 10.1002/adma.201502672. Epub 2015 Aug 18.

Authors

Evgeny A Ekimov¹, Oleg S Kudryavtsev², Andrey A Khomich², Oleg I Lebedev³, Tatiana A Dolenko⁴, Igor I Vlasov^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Physics, RAS, Kaluzhskoe Road 14, Troitsk, 142190, Russia.
² General Physics Institute, RAS, Vavilov Str. 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
³ Laboratoire CRISMAT, UMR 6508 CNRS-ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Marechal Juin, 14050, Caen, France.
⁴ Physics Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
⁵ National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Kashirskoe Road 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia.

PMID: 26283646
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201502672

Abstract

The first application of the high-pressure-high-temperature (HPHT) technique for direct production of doped ultrasmall diamonds starting from a one-component organic precursor is reported. Heavily boron-doped diamond nanoparticles with a size below 10 nm are produced by HPHT treatment of 9-borabicyclo [3,3,1]nonane dimer molecules.

Keywords: boron; doping; nanodiamonds; organic precursors; synthesis.