High-pressure route to superhard boron-rich solids

High Pressure Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-52

  Kurakevych, Oleksandr O ^a,b   Solozhenko, Vladimir L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

boron; boron rich compounds; high pressures; high temperatures; phase transitions

Indexed keywords

BORON-RICH COMPOUNDS; DIAMOND-LIKE; HIGH HARDNESS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURES; HIGH THERMAL; HIGH-PRESSURE POLYMORPH; HIGH-PRESSURE SYNTHESIS; LIGHT ELEMENTS; PHONON TRANSPORT; SUPER-HARD PHASIS; SUPERHARD;

BORON; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952940961     PISSN: 08957959     EISSN: 14772299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08957959.2010.521654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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