There is a recent, fundamental and technological interest in diamond nanowires (DNWs), the counterpart of carbon nanotubes in sp3-bonding. Many novel properties of DNWs have been theoretically predicted and advances in their synthesis could lead to the discovery of other potentially new properties, not currently available, as was the case for CNT during the initial research stage. DNWs hold a great promise in particular in high power, high temperature and high speed nanoelectronics, bioelectronics, quantum computing and solar-blind, radiation-hard UV detectors.
So far, the fabrication of dense array of long, vertically aligned, DNWs from bottom-up method has so far proven to be elusive despite the potential benefits. NANOCARBON is researching on such method which would enable the development of emerging technologies.