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]

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  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 "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

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