Now for the first time higher diamondoids will be available to the research community. Higher diamondoids are tiny diamond fragments which come in a wide variety of shapes and are very rigid and stable. These properties, plus their minute size, make diamondoids potentially useful building blocks for molecular-size machines, or nanotechnology.

What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is a rapidly evolving area of research and development focused on construction at the nanometer scale generally using new materials to build devices and systems that have novel or superior technological capabilities. Such devices include electronic, optical, and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS). Many researchers also include certain efforts in the biomedical research fields under this heading.

Nanotechnology is being funded at a rate of greater than $2 billion by US and international governments with additional significant efforts from industry. As a new, untapped area of nanotechnology building blocks, higher diamondoids could be a very attractive area for research funding. Recently nanotechnology has been attracting more than its share of venture capital interest.

Diamond Discovery - the discovery of higher diamondoids utilized unique Chevron laboratory capability.

Higher Diamondoid Properties - combining the properties of diamonds and the chemistry of carbon molecules gives higher diamondoids superb characteristics for nanotechnology.

Higher Diamondoid Structures - the great variety of rigid shapes of higher diamondoids makes them attractive structural components for molecular-design applications.

Diamondoid Production - research quantities of diamond molecules from petroleum are now readily available.

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