Abstract
Nanodiamonds (NDs) are remarkable objects. They possess extreme mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties and display high surface areas and high chemical surface reactivity. They are also host to colour centres, such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) and silicon-vacancy (SiV) centres, which possess unique spin-optical quantum properties [1] . In life sciences, fluorescent nanodiamonds are used as bio-compatible and nontoxic alternative to quantum dots for biomedical imaging [2] or as carriers for drugs and biomolecules [3, 4] . They have also been proposed in high-resolution sensing applications including magnetometry [5, 6] , electrometry [7] , decoherence microscopy [8] , thermometry [9] and Forster resonance energy transfer [10] .
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