From soft to superhard: Fifty years of experiments on cold-compressed graphite

Journal of Superhard Materials

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 360-370

  Wang, Y ^a   Lee, K K M ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diamond anvil cell experiments; high pressure graphite; M carbon; phase transition; post graphite phase

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE TRANSITIONS; INELASTIC X RAY SCATTERING; M-CARBON; POST-GRAPHITE PHASE;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 84874618913     PISSN: 10634576     EISSN: 19349408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S106345761206010X     Document Type: Article

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