A new study inspired by ice giants such as Neptune and Uranus shows that lasers can turn ordinary plastic into tiny diamonds.
plastics use high-energy laser impact to generate nanodiamonds, which has a series of technical applications.
Scientists use super-strong lasers to fry cheap plastic into tiny "nanodiamonds", thus confirming the existence of a strange new type of water.
These findings may reveal the presence of diamond rain on the ice giants in our solar system and explain why these cold planets have such a strange magnetic field. Laser blasting technology can also be used more on the earth.
nanometer diamond is a diamond with a size of only a few nanometers or one billionth of a meter. They have both existing applications and potential applications, such as converting carbon dioxide into other gases and delivering drugs into the body.
nanodiamonds can also be used as ultra-small and very precise quantum sensors for temperature and magnetic fields, which may lead to a large number of applications.
This technology can also reduce plastic pollution by establishing a fiscal incentive mechanism, encouraging people to clean up and transform plastic in the ocean.
This experiment has cool meaning for ice giants
html For more than 0 years, planetary scientists have suspected that diamonds were formed inside the cold interiors of ice giants such as Neptune and Uranus.If these diamonds really form, they will "rain" through the interior of these frozen worlds.
To verify whether this process is feasible, the researchers took a sheet of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic (the kind found in plastic bottles) and heated the plastic to about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 degrees Celsius) using a high-energy optical laser found in a material instrument under extreme conditions in a linear ac coherent light source in the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
This causes millions of times the pressure of the Earth's atmosphere, and lasts only one billionth of a second. This pressure to crush the bones vibrates the plastic, causing the carbon atoms in the plastic to reconfigure into a crystal structure, with hydrogen and oxygen drifting in the lattice.
Within the experimental time scale, researchers saw nanodiamonds form very efficiently in compressed plastics—only a few nanoseconds.
Daily plastics that make up ordinary plastic bottles can be used to impact lasers to produce valuable nanodiamonds.
New research suggests that this type of diamond formation may be more common than scientists previously thought, increasing the possibility that ice giants may have thick layers of diamonds around their solid cores.
This experiment also strongly shows that under this high temperature and pressure inside the frozen world, a strange state of water will appear, called superion water ice.
This strange water form allows protons to pass through the oxygen atom lattice. If this sonic water exists on ice giants like Uranus and Neptune, the movement of protons through this strange matter may help create a special magnetic field observed on these planets.
Past calculations suggest that carbon atoms that may be found inside the planet will make any superionic water formed there extremely unstable.
experiments now show that carbon and water are decomposing through the formation of diamond (inadvertent separation of matter in the mixture). Therefore, isolated water may exist inside the planet, which makes the formation of superion water more likely.
Soon, the spacecraft will have the potential to visit our icy neighbors to see if there is really a diamond rain and extraneous water there. The discovery of
may also have more commercial applications. Currently, people create nanodiamonds by detonating carbon or using explosives to blow larger diamonds into pieces, thus creating a hodgepodge of diamonds of varying sizes. This new method can make diamonds of specific sizes cleaner.
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