{"id":698,"date":"2012-11-07T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/?p=698"},"modified":"2013-01-30T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T14:10:48","slug":"diamond-as-a-gemstone-what-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/2012\/11\/07\/diamond-as-a-gemstone-what-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond as a gemstone? What a waste!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using Diamond Nanotechnology to repair our bodies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\nDiamonds are a girl&#8217;s best friend apparently, but are they far more valuable in biotechnology? Diamond is not only a sparkler it has some extraordinary physical properties, which are used widely in engineering and technology. It&#8217;s extremely hard, has high thermal conductivity and its electrical properties make it very useful in high performance electronic devices. One lesser known quality is its bio-compatiblity, making it perfect for devices to be used within the body.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Jackman from the London Centre for Nanotechnology will tell us why wearing diamonds is only the beginning of our uses for these versatile gemstones.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swamibu\/1182138940\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diamonds.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swamibu\/1182138940\/\" title=\"Dreaming of diamonds\" target=\"_blank\">Dreaming of diamonds<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swamibu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swamibu<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday 7th November 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 7pm, for a 7.30pm start<br \/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> Upstairs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelamblondon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lamb<\/a>, 92 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ [<a href=\"http:\/\/local.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=WC1N+3LZ&amp;sll=53.800651%2c-4.064941&amp;sspn=14.56721%2c27.246094&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=London+WC1N+3LZ%2c+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=51.523484%2c-0.123768&amp;spn=0.007476%2c0.021479&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">gmap<\/a>]<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Diamond Nanotechnology to repair our bodies. Diamonds are a girl&#8217;s best friend apparently, but are they far more valuable in biotechnology? Diamond is not only a sparkler it has some extraordinary physical properties, which are used widely in engineering and technology. It&#8217;s extremely hard, has high thermal conductivity and its electrical properties make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past","category-scibar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}