Ultrastrong catalyst-free polycrystalline diamond

Li, Q; Zhan, GD; Li, D; He, DW; Moellendick, TE; Gooneratne, CP; Alalsayednassir, AG

He, DW (corresponding author), Sichuan Univ, Inst Atom & Mol Phys, Chengdu 610065, Peoples R China.; He, DW (corresponding author), Sichuan Univ, Key Lab High Energy Dens Phys & Technol, Minist Educ, Chengdu 610065, Peoples R China.; Zhan, GD (corresponding author), Saudi Aramco, Drilling Technol Div, Explorat & Petr Engn Ctr, Adv Res Ctr EXPEC ARC, Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2020; 10 (1):

Abstract

Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring material found on earth but single crystal diamond is brittle due to the nature of catastrophic cleavage fr......

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