Tungsten tetraboride, an inexpensive superhard material

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 10958-10962

  Mohammadi, Reza ^a   Lech, Andrew T ^a   Xie, Miao ^a   Weaver, Beth E ^a   Yeung, Michael T ^a   Tolbert, Sarah H ^a   Kaner, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion hardening; Indentation hardness; Intrinsic hardness; Nano indentation hardness; Solid solutions

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; TUNGSTEN TETRABORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; HARDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79960582977     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102636108     Document Type: Article

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