The night’s research may someday be applied to making synthetic blue diamonds—not only for jewelry, but for electronics. Boron allows current to pass through the stones more efficiently than ...

It also enables precision ‘doping’ with elements such as boron (in blue diamonds) for electrochemical applications, or nitrogen-vacancy (NV) in pink diamonds for quantum technology.

In their project, reported in the journal Nature Materials, the group developed a process that involves heating and compressing graphite to create synthetic diamonds. Diamonds are a prized gem the ...