Abstract

Diamonds are hard. Humans have known that for ages. This hardness encompasses not only mechanical hardness, but also chemical, electrical, optical, and structural hardness (1). Diamonds are hard to cut, and shaping them requires a complex technology. Diamonds are chemically inert and, because of this, they are not processed chemically. Diamonds are resistant to electrical fields and, as an electronic material, they can work in the highest electric fields that solids can withstand. They are hard structurally and, because of this, they do not allow diffusion, they are immune to radiation, and they possess a stable defect structure.

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