Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) bombarded a thin sheet of plastic with a laser beam, briefly heating it to some 6,000°C and compressing the material to millions of times atmospheric pressure for a few nanoseconds. Enough to form nanodiamonds. © Blaurock, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Scientists turn plastic into diamonds!
