Bottom-up approach can synthesize microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing

In a paper published May 3 in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Washington, the US Naval Research Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that they can use extremely high pressure and temperature to introduce specific types of chemical elements into the crystal lattice of nanodiamonds -- giving the microscopic diamonds properties that could be useful for cell and tissue imaging, as well as quantum communication and quantum computing.