While raw materials accounting for 64% of the cost, diamond tools added value is increasing. The output of China's single crystal synthetic diamond takes for 90% of the global output.
Currently, China needs to develop hardware tools industry by developing new products and techniques. The overall competitiveness of the industry should be improved.
The biggest synthetic diamond was born in the U.S. after seven decades of cultivation. Born in a laboratory, the synthetic diamond is 3.04 carats and is difficult to be differentiated from natural diamond.
Once "abandoned" by iPhone6, sapphire is now used on Apple Watch, which brings new opportunities for sapphire industry. Apple Watch has helped sapphire succeed in pushing the development of the electronics field consumption substantially.
According to relevant documents, Zhengzhou plans to increase industry added value to over 1,000,000,000,000 Yuan, and total industrial output value is expected to reach 4000 ,000,000,000 Yuan.
There have been two problems in stone fair in the past few years. One is product homogenization, and the other is low and medium end products remain the major products in the market.
Global industrial migration of diamond tools has coming to its end. Currently, China and South Korea have become two diamond tools manufacturing bases, while developed countries in Europe and America preserves a handful of high-end capacity.
Vitthal Mendapra, president, Bhavnagar Diamond Association (BDA) told TOI, "Bhavnagar is the trading centre for polished diamonds. We are trying to find out the links for synthetic diamonds, which has earned a bad name to Indian diamond industry."
In the wake of the rising issue of natural diamonds and synthetic diamonds being mixed and the non-disclosure of the same, The Surat Diamond Association and the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council organised a seminar.
Nanodiamonds can turn existing drugs into a powerful tool against cancer stem cells in mice.
Statistics show that from the first half of last May to the present, China's sales revenue of natural diamond has hit ¥1,000,000,000, among which consumption of 2 carat and five carat diamond has risen by more than 40%.
Recently, Xiao Dongshan, academician of the Connecticut Branch of the U.S, Academy of Engineering will cooperate with a company in Hunan Province to tackle the problems in nano-crystalline cemented carbide technology.
Purdue University in the U.S. released a research that attaches nano diamond with nitrogen-vacancy center to metamaterials made of TiN and AlxSc1-xN , and pumps by laser so as to enhance single photon emission of metamaterials.
In 2015, Fangcheng County depends on industrial agglomeration and superhard materials industrial park to develop five major industries - mechanized equipment, superhard materials, new energy, minerals and building materials, and agricultural products.
PCBN (Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride) is the hardest substance that is second to diamond. Traditional processing techniques are difficult to deal with PCBN. A recent research designed a LBM (Laser Beam Machining) technique to deal with PCBN.
India's polished diamond exports jumped 10.8 percent year on year to $1.559 billion, according to preliminary data from the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council. By volume, exports rose 41.8 percent to 2.59 million carats.
Diamond manufacturers are entering an era of fierce competition as the looming decline in rough diamond supply is expected to place additional pressure on their already razor-thin profit margins.
A team of researchers from Euclid TechLabs and Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Materials have demonstrated a plug-and-play solution capable of operating in this high-electric-field environment with a high-quality electron beam.
Purdue University in the U.S has recently published an research on Nature claiming that they have developed a new technology called confined-pulse laser deposition that can produce synthetic nano diamond on the graphite's surface.