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Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)

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The standard procedure for creating NV (nitrogen vacancy) quantum centers in nanodiamonds involves costly irradiation in particle accelerators and annealing. It is both laborious and time-consuming. The new method, which uses plastic deformation under extremely high temperature and pressure, produces both red-emitting NV centers and green-emitting H3 centers. Moreover, it repairs the diamond lattice, resulting in particles with a more stable charge state, higher magnetic resonance (MR) contrast, and improved spin properties of the NV centers, which enables more sensitive and accurate measurements.

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