金刚石纳米材料被认为是低成本光催化剂的热门候选材料。它们可以被光激活，然后可以加速水和CO2之间的某些反应，并产生碳中性的“太阳能燃料”。欧盟项目DIACAT现在已将硼掺杂到这种金刚石材料中，并在BESSY II上展示了如何显著提高光催化性能。

Nanodiamonds as photocatalysts

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018125210.htm

1. Sneha Choudhury, Benjamin Kiendl, Jian Ren, Fang Gao, Peter Knittel, Christoph Nebel, Amélie Venerosy, Hugues Girard, Jean-Charles Arnault, Anke Krueger, Karin Larsson, Tristan Petit. Combining nanostructuration with boron doping to alter sub band gap acceptor states in diamond materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018; 6 (34): 16645 DOI: 10.1039/c8ta05594g