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ARGONNE, Ill. (August 30, 2005) "“ Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material "“ diamond "“ with the world's strongest structural form "“ carbon nanotubes. This new process for "growing" diamond and carbon nanotubes together opens the way for its use in a number of energy-related applications.The technique is the first successful synthesis of a diamond-nanotube nanocomposite, which means for the first...