Putting Nanodiamonds into Polymers for Versatile Applications

A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a flaw in the diamond crystal structure that occurs when an adjacent lattice site becomes unoccupied and a nitrogen atom takes the place of a carbon atom. Researchers are interested in color centers, which are fluorescent imperfections in diamonds that emit single photons at ambient temperature and with a long coherence time due to their quantum characteristics.