Article: Sandia creates a world's first: Diamond micromachines.(Sandia National Laboratories)(Brief Article)

Researchers at Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have created what are believed to be the world's first diamond micromachines. Powered by electrical current, the tiny machines at the Albuquerque, NM, national security facility are etched from a surface of amorphous diamond and are about the size of pollen grains. The point, say researchers John Sullivan and Tom Friedmann, is to create a layering technology useful in increasing the life span and ...

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