Nucleation mechanism for the direct graphite-to-diamond phase transition

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 693-697

  Khaliullin, Rustam Z ^a   Eshet, Hagai ^a   Kühne, Thomas D ^b   Behler, Jörg ^c   Parrinello, Michele ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHITE; NUCLEATION;

CARBON BASED MATERIALS; CONCERTED MECHANISM; HEXAGONAL POLYMORPH; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 80052069908     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3078     Document Type: Article

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