Figure 1: Onion carbon nanoparticles and a bulk sample synthesized at 10 GPa and 1,850 °C. Figure 2: A nt-diamond bulk sample synthesized at 20 GPa and 2,000 °C. Figure 3: Typical mechanical ...
A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a ...
It’s only a matter of time before a movie villain pulling off the crime of the century needs a cutting tool that is harder than anything else on Earth. Perhaps it’s a burglary that involves cutting ...
In materials science, the hardness of a material measures its resistance to deformation by indentation, scratching or other physical actions. By this metric, plastics and soft tissues are said to be ...