ABSTRACT

In present-day nanotechnologies, there has been a gradual shift from traditional, the so-called “top-down,” processes to “bottom-up” methods, that is, processes based on assembly of nanosized building blocks to develop materials with required properties. Among such nanosized blocks, carbon nanomaterials are broadly assuming recognized significance. The current chapter addresses the technology of fabrication, methods of study, the structure and properties of the group of nanocrystalline (NC) diamond materials, which encompass NC diamond films, nanodiamond (ND) powders, produced by mechanical milling of microcrystalline synthetic diamonds, and powders/suspensions of NDs obtained by dynamic synthesis.