Diamond tree explained

Diamond trees (tropostats) are a theoretical product of a future technology in molecular manufacturing that have been proposed as a method of long-term sequestration of atmospheric carbon into solid diamond products.^[1] There is growing interest in the conversion of sequestered atmospheric carbon dioxide into synthetic diamond,^[2] a process pioneered by a New York based company called Aether Diamonds. So far, the only method used for creating synthetic diamonds from carbon dioxide sequestered from the atmosphere is by chemical vapour deposition.^{[3] [4]}

Further reading

• "The Machine That Promises to Turn Carbon Pollution Into 'Diamonds from the Sky'
• American Chemical Society "'Diamonds from the sky' approach turns CO2 into valuable products." ScienceDaily, 19 August 2015
• "Diamonds Created Out Of Thin Air Sounds Like Magic. Aether Is Doing It." Forbes, 4 March 2022

Notes and References

1. Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Diamond Trees (Tropostats): A Molecular Manufacturing Based System for Compositional Atmospheric Homeostasis" IMM Report 43, 10 February 2010
2. Maddie Stone Web site: This diamond company wants to help carbon capture take off. The Verge . 2 March 2022.
3. J J Gracio et al "Diamond growth by chemical vapour deposition" 2010 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 374017
4. Peter K. Bachmann, Dieter Leers, Hans Lydtin "Towards a general concept of diamond chemical vapour deposition" Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-12, ISSN 0925-9635