ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins by presenting the reader with an introduction about diamondoids, their molecular structure, and their naming conventions and also by introducing their main chemical and physical properties, including their electronic structure and optical and vibrational properties. It provides a short overview of their current and possible future applications, which span a wide range of different scientific and technological fields: medicine, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, materials science, and opto- and nanoelectronics. The book explains about how diamondoids can form in natural gas and oil reservoirs and the methods to isolate and purify them. It discusses the known approaches to obtaining diamondoids by conventional organic chemical synthesis. The book shows possibilities exist that allow synthesizing of diamondoids both by electric discharge and by pulsed laser plasmas generated in supercritical fluids.
