New Technique Produces 10-carat Diamond

National Science Foundation ^ | 5-16-05

[STARWISE]

Single-crystal diamond block formed by CVD process on six faces of a substrate diamond

The CVD process can produce a variety of single crystal diamonds.

AND I WANT A FEW OF THOSE BABIES ..;)

[1FASTGLOCK45]

If they get good at making these flawless diamonds, would they be considered the same value as a natural flawless diamond?

[Bonaparte]

Impressive! Thanks for posting this!

[GoLightly]

I wouldn't mind having a whole collection of them. :o)

[ApplegateRanch]

Great! I'll never suffer another scratched camera lens.

Of course, I'll have to hock all the cameras and telescopes to afford the lens....

[martin_fierro]

When I go, you can make me into a diamond.

[Cboldt]

If they get good at making these flawless diamonds, would they be considered the same value as a natural flawless diamond?

Probably not. No good reason why not though (rarity and "natural" being the only differentiating properties), just that people and markets are sometimes irrational.

[MindBender26]

Natural flawless means, to a jeweler, no imperfections seen with a 10 power loupe. If these are truly flawless, then they would be differentiated from natural diamonds, but since they would be "better" than a natural diamond, the value would be ???????

[bvw]

Wow! Wow! Double-wow!

[tiredoflaundry]

I'll take one in every color! ;-)

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I guess we'll wait and see what happens, it will be interesting. I guess we'll be in trouble when we get good at making "gold" that is just like the real thing. ;)

[bvw]

1 millimeter per hour may be possible

Moore's law applies -- I bet -- we'll see diamond window panes in our lifetime.

[datura]

We already can make gold. Better than 'traditional' gold.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Finally, new shapes have been fabricated with the blocks of the CVD single crystals."

New shapes? They're "growing" diamonds that are faceted already? Or am I misunderstanding something here?

[DaGman]

"If they get good at making these flawless diamonds, would they be considered the same value as a natural flawless diamond"

Depending on efficiency, the bottom could fall out of the diamond market.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Some people need their diamonds to come from the earth, just throw some dirt on it and raise the price.

[tet68]

When they come in cereal boxes then we'll be getting
somewhere.

This could have some interesting applications though.

[Luke]

I'm not interested unless it will cure cancer.

[P.O.E.]

Who says size isn't everything, dahling?

[Tench_Coxe]

Cool.