From New Scientist Tech
tequila a raw material for diamond film... tougher than silicon.
really?
"... diamond films are expensive and difficult to make. They are produced by vaporising organic material, and then controlling how the carbon atoms crystallise onto a surface. The process works best if the material contains carbon and oxygen in roughly equal parts, as well as some hydrogen. Now a team of researchers led by Javier Morales of the University of Nuevo León near Monterrey in Mexico have shown that ordinary tequila does the job nicely. They injected the heated vapour from 80-proof "tequila blanco" into a low-pressure chamber. Measurements confirmed that the carbon deposited on test surfaces had a diamond structure (www.arxiv.org/abs/0806.1485). "Some kinds of tequila seem naturally to have the right mix of atoms," says Morales. ..."
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826615.700-tequila-is-surprise-raw-material-for-diamond--films.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1485v1
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