En route to chemically and topologically regular (nano)diamond

我们提出了纳米尺寸的金刚石颗粒的制备和表征，可通过化学偶联的天然存在的金刚烷类金刚石三金刚烷，异构体tetraman-tanes，五金刚烷，和六金刚烷（我们已经从原油馏分中分离出来）。与纳米金刚石颗粒混合物相反，纳米金刚石颗粒混合物可从例如，CVD源的爆炸;这些物质具有明确的拓扑特征，代表化学纯和均匀的材料。这不仅允许它们的选择性制备和功能化，而且还可以研究它们的尺寸以及拓扑结构与它们的特殊电子性质之间的关系，因为它们的尺寸从分子到宏观域增加。由此获得的纳米金刚石将被测试在有机电子中的潜在应用（与物理学项目合作伙伴建立良好的合作关系），如分子场发射器，电子导电结和薄层场晶体管。

We propose the preparation and characterization of nanometer-sized diamond particles accessible through chemical coupling of the naturally occurring diamondoids triamantane, isomeric tetraman-tanes, pentamantane, and hexamantane (which we have already isolated from raw petroleum cuts). In contrast to nanodiamond particle mixtures, which are available from, e.g., detonation of CVD sources; these species have well-defined topological characteristics and represent chemically pure and homogeneous materials. This allows not only their selective preparation and functionalization, but also the study of relationships between their sizes as well as topologies and their exceptional electronic properties as they increase in size from the molecular to the macroscopic do-main. Nanodiamonds thus obtained will be tested towards potential applications (in well established collaboration with project partners in physics) in organic electronics such molecular field emitters, electronic conductive junctions, and thin-layer field transistors.