2015-05-042015-05-042010-12-28Khabashesku, Valery N., Liu, Yu and Halas, Nancy J., "Fluorinated nanodiamond as a precursor for solid substrate surface coating using wet chemistry." Patent US7858186B2. issued 2010-12-28. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1911/80041.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/80041The present invention is directed to nanodiamond (ND) surface coatings and methods of making same. Such coatings are formed by a covalent linkage of ND crystals to a particular surface via linker species. The methods described herein overcome many of the limitations of the prior art in that they can be performed with standard wet chemistry (i.e., solution-based) methods, thereby permitting low temperature processing. Additionally, such coatings can potentially be applied on a large scale and for coating large areas of a variety of different substrates.17 ppengUtility patentUS7858186B2