While High Pressure High Temperature diamonds are making their biggest impact in jewelry currently, their unique and tunable chemical properties open up a wide array of industrial and technological applications:
Abrasives - HPHT nano-diamonds outperform other abrasives given their extreme hardness, high wear resistance, and chemically inert nature. Applications include cutting tools, grinding wheels, polishing compounds and lubricant additives.
Electronics - Lab grown HPHT diamonds can be doped with elements like boron and phosphorus to make p-type/n-type semiconductors for advanced electronics projects. Diamond's thermal conductivity is also useful for heat sinks.
Medical - With their biocompatible, non-reactive properties, nanoparticles of HPHT diamonds are ideal for drug delivery, bio-imaging and biosensors within the body. Radio opacity also aids medical imaging.
Quantum Tech - HPHT diamond's unique lattice structure enables quantum information storage, entanglement and processing applications. Precision placement of atomic-scale impurities enables quantum computation.
While most HPHT diamonds end up in jewelry for now, their revenue helping fund further research and refinement of production processes. This will enable expansion into these varied technological and scientific frontiers where diamonds have properties unmatched by any other material.
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