{"id":27069,"date":"2024-10-05T12:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27069"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:23:17","slug":"fluorescent-nano-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fluorescent-nano-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent Nano-Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fluorescent Nano-Diamonds:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are nanometre-sized diamonds made of <strong>carbon nanoparticles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Properties<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>produced<\/strong> in a <strong>high temperature and high pressure<\/strong> process.<\/li>\n<li>FNDs are stable under light and <strong>aren\u2019t toxic<\/strong> to living things.<\/li>\n<li>FNDs <strong>don\u2019t blink<\/strong> when irradiated for a long time.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>fluorescence lifespan<\/strong> is <strong>greater than 10 nanoseconds<\/strong> (ns) \u2014 a relatively long duration \u2014 which makes them better than quantum dots.<\/li>\n<li>FNDs can also be doped to enhance their electrical, magnetic, thermal, and\/or optical properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They have many applications in high-resolution imaging, microscale temperature sensing, and correlative microscopy, among others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical Diagnostics:<\/strong> In biology, scientists use FNDs to track cells and their progeny over long periods.<\/li>\n<li>They can be <strong>used as sensors<\/strong> in many high-value industries and strategic sectors.<\/li>\n<li>FNDs containing nitrogen vacancy (NV) \u2212 centres can be used to produce the macroscopic version of the <strong>quantum superposition of electrons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Fluorescence?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the ability of certain chemicals to give off visible light after absorbing radiation which is not normally visible, such as ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-spin-diamonds-at-a-billion-rpm-to-test-the-limits-of-physics\/article68705918.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists spin diamonds at a billion RPM to test the limits of physics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluorescent Nano-Diamonds are produced in a high temperature and high pressure process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}