Nanotwinned diamond with unprecedented hardness and stability

Nature

Volumn 510, Issue 7504, 2014, Pages 250-253

  Huang, Quan ^a   Yu, Dongli ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Hu, Wentao ^a   Ma, Yanming ^b   Wang, Yanbin ^c   Zhao, Zhisheng ^a   Wen, Bin ^a   He, Julong ^a   Liu, Zhongyuan ^a   Tian, Yongjun ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIAMOND; NANOPARTICLE;

HARDNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; THERMOSTABILITY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84902249750     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13381     Document Type: Note

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