Superhard nanocomposite of dense polymorphs of boron nitride: Noncarbon material has reached diamond hardness

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Dubrovinskaia, Natalia ^a,b,c   Solozhenko, Vladimir L ^d   Miyajima, Nobuyoshi ^c   Dmitriev, Vladimir ^e   Kurakevych, Oleksandr O ^d   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDNESS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMORPHISM; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AGGREGATED BORON NITRIDE NANOCOMPOSITES (ABNNC); INDUSTRIAL POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; SUPERHARD MATERIALS;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 33947096623     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2711277     Document Type: Article

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