Search for superhard carbon: between graphite and diamond

Hard and superhard carbon phases synthesized from fullerites under pressure

(2013) V. V. Brazhkin et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

From soft to superhard: Fifty years of experiments on cold-compressed graphite

(2013) Y. Wang et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Novel sp3 forms of carbon predicted by evolutionary metadynamics and analysis of their synthesizability using transition path sampling

(2013) S. E. Boulfelfel et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Prediction of superhard carbon allotropes from the segment combination method

(2013) Ch. He et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Stability and structural, elastic, and electronic properties of 3D-(sp 3) carbon allotropes according to DFTB calculations

(2012) A. N. Enyashin et al.   DOKLADY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Microscopic theory of hardness and design of novel superhard crystals

(2012) Yongjun Tian et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFRACTORY METALS & HARD MATERIALS

Lowest enthalpy polymorph of cold-compressed graphite phase

(2012) Da Li et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Crystal Structure of Cold Compressed Graphite

(2012) Maximilian Amsler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Graphene-based and graphene-like materials

(2012) Alexander L Ivanovskii   RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS

New superhard carbon phases between graphite and diamond

(2012) Chaoyu He et al.   SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS

Three Dimensional Carbon-Nanotube Polymers

(2011) Zhisheng Zhao et al.   ACS Nano

Electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of superhard cold-compressed phases of carbon

(2011) Haiyang Niu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Correlation between hardness and elastic moduli of the covalent crystals

(2011) Xue Jiang et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Theoretical investigation on the transition-metal borides with Ta3B4-type structure: A class of hard and refractory materials

(2011) Naihua Miao et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Modeling hardness of polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses

(2011) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   INTERMETALLICS

Carbon Nanotube Superarchitectures: An Ab Initio Study

(2011) Rulong Zhou et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

The search for novel superhard and incompressible materials on the basis of higher borides of s, p, d metals

(2011) A. L. Ivanovskii   Journal of Superhard Materials

Graphene allotropes

(2011) Andrey N. Enyashin et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Superhardsp3carbon allotropes with odd and even ring topologies

(2011) Daniele Selli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Low-Temperature Phase Transformation from Graphite tosp3Orthorhombic Carbon

(2011) Jian-Tao Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition 3d–5d metals from first principles: Toward search of novel ultra-incompressible and superhard materials

(2011) A.L. Ivanovskii   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Phase stability of carbon clathrates at high pressure

(2010) Jian-Tao Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermodynamic model of hardness: Particular case of boron-rich solids

(2010) V. A. Mukhanov et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Microscopic models of hardness

(2010) F. M. Gao et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Predicting new superhard phases

(2010) Q. Li et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Towards the theory of hardness of materials

(2010) A. R. Oganov et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Theoretical hardness and ideal tensile strength of bct-C4

(2010) Yuanhui Xu et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

Ab initiostudy of the formation of transparent carbon under pressure

(2010) Xiang-Feng Zhou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Structural, electronic and elastic properties of ultra-light diamond-like crystalline allotropes of carbon-functionalized fullerenes C28

(2009) Andrey N. Enyashin et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Phase stabilities and mechanical properties of two new carbon crystals

(2009) Y. Liang et al.   EPL

The interrelation between hardness and compressibility of substances and their structure and thermodynamic properties

(2009) V. A. Mukhanov et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Superhard phases of simple substances and binary compounds of the B-C-N-O system: from diamond to the latest results (a Review)

(2009) O. O. Kurakevych   Journal of Superhard Materials

Superhard Monoclinic Polymorph of Carbon

(2009) Quan Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Comment on “New Metallic Carbon Crystal”

(2009) Y. Yao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

New Metallic Carbon Crystal

(2009) Masahiro Itoh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Hypothetical three-dimensional all-sp2carbon phase

(2008) G.-M. Rignanese et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Structural, electronic, cohesive, and elastic properties of diamondlike allotropes of crystallineC40

(2008) Andrey N. Enyashin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Assemblies of carbon and boron-nitrogen nanotubes and fullerenes: Structure and properties

(2008) A. L. Ivanovskii   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

State of Art and recent trends in bulk carbon nitrides synthesis

(2007) Graziella Goglio et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS