Interstitial-boron solution strengthened WB3+x

Unexpectedly hard and highly stable WB3 with a noncompact structure

(2013) Yongcheng Liang et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Radial x-ray diffraction of tungsten tetraboride to 86 GPa under nonhydrostatic compression

(2013) Lun Xiong et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Ultrahard nanotwinned cubic boron nitride

(2013) Yongjun Tian et al.   NATURE

The high-throughput highway to computational materials design

(2013) Stefano Curtarolo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Discovery of a Superhard Iron Tetraboride Superconductor

(2013) Huiyang Gou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Global Structural Optimization of Tungsten Borides

(2013) Quan Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unusual rigidity and ideal strength of CrB4 and MnB4

(2012) Huiyang Gou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Universal ground state hexagonal phases and mechanical properties of stoichiometric transition metal tetraborides: TMB4 (TM=W, Tc, and Re)

(2012) Meiguang Zhang et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

An unexpected softening from WB3to WB4

(2012) Yongcheng Liang et al.   EPL

Toward Inexpensive Superhard Materials: Tungsten Tetraboride-Based Solid Solutions

(2012) Reza Mohammadi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unexpectedly low indentation strength of WB3and MoB3from first principles

(2012) Chenpeng Zang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Structure, bonding, and possible superhardness of CrB4

(2012) Haiyang Niu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Exploring the high-pressure behavior of superhard tungsten tetraboride

(2012) Miao Xie et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Pressure-Driven Evolution of the Covalent Network inCaB6

(2012) A. N. Kolmogorov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Stability and Strength of Transition-Metal Tetraborides and Triborides

(2012) R. F. Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Extra-electron induced covalent strengthening and generalization of intrinsic ductile-to-brittle criterion

(2012) Haiyang Niu et al.   Scientific Reports

How Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction Works—and Why

(2011) Artem R. Oganov et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Low-compressibility of tungsten tetraboride: a high pressure X-ray diffraction study

(2011) Chenji Liu et al.   HIGH PRESSURE RESEARCH

Modeling hardness of polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses

(2011) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   INTERMETALLICS

Ab initiorandom structure searching

(2011) Chris J Pickard et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Thermodynamic identification of tungsten borides

(2011) Yongcheng Liang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Hardness ofT-carbon: Density functional theory calculations

(2011) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tungsten tetraboride, an inexpensive superhard material

(2011) R. Mohammadi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

New Superconducting and Semiconducting Fe-B Compounds Predicted with anAb InitioEvolutionary Search

(2010) A. N. Kolmogorov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Advancements in the Search for Superhard Ultra-Incompressible Metal Borides

(2009) Jonathan B. Levine et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron

(2009) Artem R. Oganov et al.   NATURE

Superhard Semiconducting Optically Transparent High Pressure Phase of Boron

(2009) E. Yu. Zarechnaya et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Transition Metal Borides: Superhard versus Ultra-incompressible

(2008) Qinfen Gu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Origin of hardness in WB4 and its implications for ReB4, TaB4, MoB4, TcB4, and OsB4

(2008) Mei Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Preparation and Properties of Metallic, Superhard Rhenium Diboride Crystals

(2008) Jonathan B. Levine et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electronic and Structural Origin of Ultraincompressibility of5dTransition-Metal DiboridesMB2(M=W, Re, Os)

(2008) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS