Bulk glasses and ultrahard nanoceramics based on alumina and rare-earth oxides

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7001, 2004, Pages 761-764

  Rosenflanz, A ^a   Frey, M ^a   Endres, B ^a   Anderson, T ^a   Richards, E ^a   Schardt, C ^a  

^a 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CERAMIC MATERIALS; GRAIN GROWTH; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICATES; SINTERING;

BULK GLASSES; NANOCERAMICS;

GLASS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; GLASS; LANTHANIDE; NANOPARTICLE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CERAMIC INDUSTRY; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COOLING; CRYSTAL; GLASS INDUSTRY; HARDNESS; HEAT TREATMENT; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALOX;

EID: 4043118749     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02729     Document Type: Article

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