Hard and tough ultrafine-grained B4C-cBN composites prepared by high-pressure sintering

L Sun, P Li, M Ma, K Luo, B Liu, B Li, Y Wu… - Journal of the European …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tough and hard ultrafine-grained B 4 C-cBN composites were firstly fabricated by high-
pressure sintering mixed B 4 C and cBN nanopowders at 6 GPa and 1700° C. The phase …

A pressure-induced superhard SiCN 4 compound uncovered by first-principles calculations

C Wang, G Yu, S Zhang, Y Zhao, H Chen… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Silicon–carbon–nitride (Si–C–N) compounds are a family of potential superhard materials
with many excellent chemical and physical properties; however, only SiCN, Si2CN4 and …

Effect of elastic deformations on direct polymorphic transformations in BN under pressure

IA Perezhogin, BA Kulnitskiy, SI Zholudev… - Journal of the European …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper gives an investigation of the effect of shear deformation on direct transitions in
BN under pressure. The transition of a hexagonal (graphite-like) phase h-BN into a cubic …