Synthesis of nanodiamonds: key patterns and possibilities of control

The relevance of the review is determined by the need for a predictive assessment of the yield of detonation nanodiamonds without conducting experiments and by emerging possibility of calculating particular characteristics of explosives in the partial or complete absence of other known characteristics, with the calculation error being ± 15%. This review summarizes and analyzes the empirical relationships between characteristics of explosives that provide a mathematical description of explosion and formation of nanodiamonds and makes it possible to determine all other explosion parameters from one known parameter. Data on the effect of the carbon content in explosives on the electrical conductivity of the 'plasma' in the chemical reaction zone are considered. The key putative mechanisms of nanodiamond formation are critically discussed.
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