Search for superhard materials: Nanocrystalline composites with hardness exceeding 50 GPa

Nanostructured Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 679-689

  Veprek, S ^a   Nesladek, P ^a   Niederhofer, A ^a   Glatz, F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDNESS; SILICON NITRIDE;

SUPERHARD MATERIALS; VICKERS HARDNESS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0032108475     PISSN: 09659773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9773(98)00106-8     Document Type: Article

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