Defect-free diamond is an important physics playground and technological tool due to its
well-known list of superlative properties, such as its hardness, thermal conductivity …

Since 1797, when Tennant demonstrated that diamond consists solely of elemental carbon
by comparing the volume of carbon dioxide formed by burning identical weights of charcoal …

Electron acceptors with nonfused aromatic cores (NCAs) have aroused increasing interest in
organic solar cells due to the low synthetic complexity and flexible chemical modification, but …

Methylene blue dye is among the toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic pollutants. Hence, its
treatment via photocatalytic degradation is an important remediation method for the sake of …

The manuscript focuses on the concept of nano-phosphors, a remarkable type of material
that has been widely explored because of their diverse promising applications. Progress in …

Direct current plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was employed to create
polycrystalline diamond films from CH 4/H 2 gaseous mixture at 98 mbar pressure and …

Among fancy-color diamonds, naturally pink to red stones are among the rarest and most
valuable. The color origin for natural pink diamonds is due to either absorption from the as …

Methylene blue dye is one of the noxious, carcinogenic, and mutagenic pollutants. Thus, for
the sake of a salubrious environment, its treatment through photocatalytic degradation …

In recent years, the potential use of mixed metal oxide WO 3: ZnO is widely sought in
photocatalytic application due to its excellent electrical and optical properties, but is less …

Raman and photoluminescence (PL) mapping is a non-destructive method which allows
gemologists and scientists to evaluate the spatial distributions of defects within a gem; it can …