Organic anorganic gemstone interface
What is an "organic gemstone" even?
See main page: Organic gemstone-like compound
There are very few "organic gemstone" (as to this wikis definition of them) these include:
- Diamond (and it's somewhat symmetry changed varieties including lonsdaleite).
- Carbon nitrides (like β-C3N4 beta carbon nitride), carbon phosphides, carbon borides
There are also metal-free gemstones with at least 50% carbon like e.g. moissanite.
These could be called a semi organic gemstone, but including the semi-metal silicon is really stretching it.
How to fuse them together with "normal gemstoes"?
The question here is how to fuse these organic gemstones together with all the other possible gemstones.
The main difference here is the atomic diameter. Metal atoms are quite big when compared to carbon atoms.
Furthermore metal atoms often have high bond order due to their d-valence-orbitals and like to for coordinate bonds (aka dative bonds) and
(taking one step further to the left in the periodic table) metals are sometimes are quite ionic.
Inspiration for the desired gemstone coupling could be taken from:
- Teeth and geometry of chelating agents. -- See Coordinate bond
- Bonds in metalorganic compounds.
- Bonds in sandwich compounds.
The spacial context for fusing gemstones is much different though
with a dense stiff policyclic gemstome like bond framework on each sides behind.
Related
Bonding to organic graphene onto gemstones (organic or not).
E.g. maybe to do surface passivation of larger gears.
Possibly with bonds similar to the ones found in sandwich compounds.
- Seamless covalent welding
- diamond like compounds
- Sandwich compound
- Semi organic gemstone-like compounds
Nanosystems Chapter 8 Mechanosynthesis
=> 8.5. Forcible mechanochemical processes
=> 8.5.10. Transition-metal reactions
=> 8.5.10.b. Ligands suitable for mechanochemistry
=> Illustration 8.44 – A cobalt atom bond by nitrogen lone pairs in a diamondoid cage
Related: Fun with spins
