"What they see is a quite fascinating phenomenon," says Risto Nieminen from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, who also researches diamond production with ion beams.
After Honolulu, Fleming moved on to Los Angeles, where he visited a number of places he had been before, including the Los Angeles Police Intelligence headquarters, where he again met Captain James Hamilton, much as he had done during his research for Diamonds Are Forever.
Despite her cautious praise of the new research, Dr. Diamond also noted that the kind of sexual arousal tested in the studies is only one element of sexual orientation and identity.
At the Politecnico, her supervisor was conducting research on diamond-like carbons (DLCs).
Extensive research on diamond and diamondlike carbon (DLC) films in our laboratory has further confirmed that hydrogen plays an important role in the tribological properties of these films.
Not many people do fundamental research on diamond--her group is the only one in the Netherlands--so any growth characteristic she found, positive or negative, was good enough for publication.
Dr Zhou added that the diamond particles are burned away in the process, but the discovery could lead to future research into how diamonds could be created more cheaply, and in a more environmentally friendly way.
