Symposium NT5-Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications

The interest in small and quasi-spherical diamond particles of few nanometers in size with narrow particle size distribution is growing rapidly over the past few years. To a large extent it is driven by promising discoveries in their applications. Biomedical applications of fluorescent nanodiamonds including cell imaging, drug delivery systems, and optically detected magnetic resonance are most exciting. NV centers in nanodiamond bring about a promise of NMR measurements of a single biomolecule in vivo in the near future. Recent developments in drug delivery systems using the primary particles of detonation nanodiamond (PPDN) as a platform, is another driving force. Besides biomedical applications, nanodiamonds are intensely developed for composites, lubrication, chromatography, and many other applications. Several companies in the USA, Europe, and Asia are closely involved in the research and commercial development of this nanomaterial.

The progress in novel applications and commercialization of nanodiamond requires a better fundamental understanding and developing robust, economically viable ways to manipulate the structure and chemistry of this material at the nano-scale. Many challenges still remain to be overcome. For example, we are still unable to prepare analytically acceptable standard sample of PPDN or draw precise picture of its surface structure. With surface-to-volume atomic ratio as high as 20 %, the surface of single diamond nanoparticles plays crucial role in essentially all aspects of this nanomaterial. In addition, techniques for purification and modification of the nanoparticles are significantly different from those traditionally used for molecules. The differences are in part due to the fact that the nanoparticles are not uniform and may slightly differ from each other in composition and/or size. On the other hand, the mechanisms of reactions at the surface of nanoparticles as small as 3 nm may differ from the reactions in solutions or on largely flat surfaces.

The advantages of nanodiamonds are unique: their cores are believed to hold high crystallinity and chemical inertness of bulk diamond while providing fully accessible and highly reactive surface. Thus, nanodiamond satisfies requirements to a modern material, providing strength, robustness, and stability, as well as many options for chemical surface modification, tailoring its properties, and combining it with other materials.

• Methods of nanodiamond synthesis
• Production of well dispersed nanodiamonds
• Color centers and fluorescence
• Biomedical imaging with nanodiamond
• Drug delivery mechanisms and practice
• Surface chemistry and structure of nanodiamond
• Colloidal properties of nanodiamonds
• Geometry and electronic structure of nanodiamond crystals
• Applications unique to nanodiamonds
• Computational modeling of nanodiamond (structure, chemistry, defects) and their interactions with the environment
• Filling the gap between the diamondoids, nanodiamond, and larger diamond crystals

• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _0 (University of Technology Sidney, Australia)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _1 (Universite´ Montpellier, France)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _2 (Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _3 (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _4 (Drexel University, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _5 (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _6 (Carbon Science Institute, Shinshu University, Japan)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _7 (Kyoto University, Japan)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _8 (Institut für Organische Chemie, Germany)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _9 (Curtin University, Australia)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _10 (Purdue University, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _11 (University of Washington, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _12 (Institute of Methods for Materials Development at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _13 (Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Saarland University, Germany)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _14 (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _15 (Brandeis University, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _16 (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _17 (Adamas Nanotechnologies, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _18 (Michigan State University, USA)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _19 (M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation)
• NT5_Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications _20 (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)