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Diamond trees (tropostats) are a theoretical product of a future technology in molecular manufacturing that have been proposed as a method of long-term sequestration of atmospheric carbon into solid diamond products. There is growing interest in the conversion of sequestered atmospheric carbon dioxide into synthetic diamond, a process pioneered by a New York based company called Aether Diamonds. So far, the only method used for creating synthetic diamonds from carbon dioxide sequestered from the atmosphere is by chemical vapour deposition.
References
- Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Diamond Trees (Tropostats): A Molecular Manufacturing Based System for Compositional Atmospheric Homeostasis" IMM Report 43, 10 February 2010
- Maddie Stone "This diamond company wants to help carbon capture take off". The Verge. 2 March 2022.
- J J Gracio et al "Diamond growth by chemical vapour deposition" 2010 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 374017
- Peter K. Bachmann, Dieter Leers, Hans Lydtin "Towards a general concept of diamond chemical vapour deposition" Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-12, ISSN 0925-9635
Further reading
- "The Machine That Promises to Turn Carbon Pollution Into 'Diamonds from the Sky'
- American Chemical Society "'Diamonds from the sky' approach turns CO2 into valuable products." ScienceDaily, 19 August 2015
- "Diamonds Created Out Of Thin Air Sounds Like Magic. Aether Is Doing It." Forbes, 4 March 2022