Response to comment on "synthesis of ultra-incompressible superhard rhenium diboride at ambient pressure"

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5856, 2007, Pages

  Chung, Hsiu Ying ^a   Weinberger, Michelle B ^a   Levine, Jonathan B ^a   Cumberland, Robert W ^a   Kavner, Abby ^a   Yang, Jenn Ming ^a   Tolbert, Sarah H ^a   Kaner, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; DIAMOND; NANOCOMPOSITE; RHENIUM COMPLEX; RHENIUM DIBORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIAMOND; PRESSURE; RHENIUM; STRESS RESISTANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPRESSION; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HARDNESS; HEAT; INDUSTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 36849094492     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147704     Document Type: Review

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