Ak. Sharma et al., DIAMOND NUCLEATION AT THE ORGANIC LIQUID-METAL INTERFACE BY LASER-INDUCED REACTIVE QUENCHING, Materials letters, 17(1-2), 1993, pp. 42-48
Diamond particulates in the form of a film were deposited on tungsten
surfaces by laser-induced reactive quenching of cyclohexane and decali
n liquids whose stereostructure is closely related to that of diamond.
Transmission electron microscopy, glancing angle X-ray diffraction, a
nd laser Raman spectroscopic studies indicate that the deposited film
consists mainly of a mixture of hexagonal polytypes of diamond. The an
alysis shows that these molecules serve as building blocks for the for
mation of diamonds.