Russian Federal Nuclear Center-Zababakhin

Due to its unique physicochemical characteristics, diamond is widely used in industry. Interest in fabrication of artificial diamond crystals, specifically, those obtained by detonation transformation of explosives, was already evinced in the 1940s. Attention was paid to the fact that thermodynamic conditions for the existence of carbon as diamond crystals are realized in the zone of the detonation complex. Nanodiamond powder synthesis and the properties of synthesized materials were studied in numerous works performed at various research centers [1-11]. In subsequent decades, many attempts were undertaken to develop detonation diamond technology. One of these technologies was developed and patented by the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF). 

A commercial technology of ultradisperse detonation diamond powder (technical specifications TU 2-037-677-94) has been developed and its production has been organized at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk Region. The major physicochemical parameters of this product are given in Table 2.2. 

Table 2.2 The major physicochemical parameters of ultradisperse detonation diamond powder produced at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk Region.

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