How to create pure diamonds like natural diamonds in 2 weeks

Diamonds are extremely luxurious and classy jewelry. Because only a certain amount of diamond in the world has made expensive diamonds more expensive. Recently, the Diamond Foundry startup project in Santa Clara has stated that it has been able to grow diamonds in the laboratory with high quality equivalent to natural diamonds.

Famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio, along with 10 other billionaires, has invested in the company with the promise that they can create hundreds of diamonds in just 2 weeks, each weighing 9 carats or more. Listen here, surely we will be curious to know how Diamond Foundry will "plant" diamonds?

First, they used a real diamond to make seeds. According to a company spokesman, the new method makes their products different from other artificial diamonds. They use ultra-hot plasma rays to create more atoms to cover each layer outside the diamond seed until they have another diamond. Diamond Foundry's diamond is "grown" in a chemical reactor with temperatures reaching 8,000 degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the sun (only 5,500 degrees Celsius hot).

Diamonds are made up of carbon, the material form of graphite. In nature, undergone geological processes that last for millions of years under compression and temperature in the ground, but new diamonds are created. In the laboratory, the process of making diamonds is similar, but scientists can change the trace elements inside artificial diamonds. The two most common techniques for making artificial diamonds are pressure under high temperature (HPHT) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

In the first method , a carbon particle crystal is placed inside a special pressure device along with another metal solvent. Under high pressure of about 1,400 degrees Celsius, metal crystals will melt and dissolve into carbon crystals to form diamonds.

With the second method , mixed carbon and hydrogen signing will be used. This mixture is deposited in layers on a surface with a temperature of about 800 degrees C.

However, Diamond Foundry's method is a combination of the above two elements at a much higher temperature, McManus (head of the Materialytics team, a company that specializes in distinguishing natural and artificial diamonds to value assessment) sharing about how to "cultivate" diamonds. Finally, the finished product will be pure diamonds like nature. Diamond Foundry is very confident about the quality of diamonds we can "grow".

The project of growing diamonds is very potential because it can produce pure diamonds after only 2 weeks. Hopefully, Diamond Foundary's efforts can help diamonds become less expensive and more popular in the market.