TEM studies of nanocarbons and nanodiamonds (ND); Mechanical milling of ND and Cu

Yamamoto, Kazunori; Taguchi, Tomitsugu; Hanada, Kotaro*; Osawa, Eiji*; Inakuma, Masayasu*; Livramento, V.*; Correia, J, B.*; Shohoji, Nobumitsu*

Nano-sized polymorphs of carbon continue to attract much attention of scientists and provide new targets of examination with transmission electron microscope (TEM). We present here TEM images of a number of nanocarbons which played critical roles in some stage of their R&D, such as mechanical alloying of Cu and nanodiamond, diamond from soot, and short carbon nanocylinders by milling with microbeads. Emphasis is placed on nanodiamonds.