Researchers from the Institute of Physics have produced the smallest diamonds in the world

Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with their colleagues from Stanford University, USA, University in Giessen, Germany, and the University in Hasselt, Belgium, have succeeded in developing the smallest diamond in the world [1]. A synthetically created crystal of a nanodiamond was grown from a nucleus containing 26 carbon atoms. More information can be found here.