Diamondoids are nanosystems with diamond-like chemical structures based on diamond derivatives and/or stiff carbon bonds. They are used for building and are ideally suited for megastructures as they are strong under tension and flexible, as opposed to pure diamond which is brittle.
Examples of diamondoid:
- pure diamond
- artificial diamond (nanoassembled perfect crystalline diamond)
- adamant: carbon bonds are arranged through nanoscale mechanochemistry to confer greater hardness, toughness, and flexibility than that of standard diamondoid which is relatively brittle.
- graphene
- carbon nanotubes
- aggregated carbon nanorods
- pandifico: a powerful diamondoid composite that is constructed to be elastic and flexible like rubber.
- carbon nitride