The findings will likely guide future studies not only on the potential of nanodiamonds in drug delivery but also on fighting bacteria and treating viral diseases. (sciencedaily.com)
The levitating nanodiamonds also could find uses in quantum information processing, experimental techniques to probe fundamental physics in quantum mechanics, and the measurement of magnetic and gravitational fields, which could be applied to computer memory and experiments to search for deviations from Newton's law of gravitation. (sciencedaily.com)
The stone's noble gas content supports an extraterrestrial origin, while the presence of tiny diamonds — larger than nanodiamonds found in a common kind of meteorite called chondrites, but similar in size to diamond aggregates known to be formed by impacts — supports a cometary origin. (sciencemag.org)