Surface interface

The term surface interfaces (oe short sinterfaces) may be used for the unpassivated surfaces of DMSEs. Unpassivated means that open unsaturated bonds (chemical radicals) are present. Those act (in practical terms) simply as androgynous connection poiunts. To have anything to assemble for each interface surface of an DMSE there muts be at least one type of DMSE that provides at least one complemebtary surface interface.

For some crystallographic surfaces of diamond surface reconstruction is an issue. This has been analyzed [Todo: add link to nanodiamond study]. The surface reconstuctions that are often observed today are ofthen caused by heating the sample way above ambient temperature.

Since the formed bonds are indistinguishable from the bonds in the solid merging/welding two complementary sintefaces together is an irreversible process. When trying to break the sinterface apart again some random fracture will occur.

If a sinterface lies on a single plane all the bond directions are normal to the plane and the suinterface has at least twofold rotational symmetry then the complementary surface is identical to the original.