Towards the theory of hardness of materials

Journal of Superhard Materials

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 143-147

  Oganov, A R ^a,b   Lyakhov, A O ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

computational design of superhard materials; evolutionary prediction of crystal structure; SiO2 polymorphs; TiO2 cotunnite

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; COMPLEX PROPERTIES; EVOLUTIONARY PREDICTION OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; HARD MATERIAL; SIMPLE APPROACH; SIO2 POLYMORPHS; SUPERHARD MATERIAL; TIO;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HARDNESS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 77955562999     PISSN: 10634576     EISSN: 19349408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S1063457610030019     Document Type: Article

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