Controversy about ultrahard nanotwinned cBN

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7472, 2013, Pages

  Dubrovinskaia, Natalia ^a   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NOTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84886825717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12620     Document Type: Note

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