High-pressure behaviors of carbon nanotubes

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

Wear resistance of nano-polycrystalline diamond with various hexagonal diamond contents

(2013) A. Kurio et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Microscopic theory of hardness and design of novel superhard crystals

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

Polymorphic Phases of sp3-Hybridized Carbon under Cold Compression

(2012) Rulong Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Four superhard carbon allotropes: a first-principles study

(2012) Chaoyu He et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Lowest enthalpy polymorph of cold-compressed graphite phase

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

Systematic search for low-enthalpysp3carbon allotropes using evolutionary metadynamics

(2012) Qiang Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

New cubic carbon phase via graphitic sheet rumpling

(2012) Jian-Tao Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

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

Supertoughening in B1 transition metal nitride alloys by increased valence electron concentration

(2011) D.G. Sangiovanni et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Modeling hardness of polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses

(2011) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   INTERMETALLICS

Novel High-Pressure Phase of RhB: First-Principles Calculations

(2011) Qianqian Wang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Superhardsp3carbon allotropes with odd and even ring topologies

(2011) Daniele Selli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Denser than diamond:Ab initiosearch for superdense carbon allotropes

(2011) Qiang Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Evolutionary search for superhard materials: Methodology and applications to forms of carbon and TiO2

(2011) Andriy O. Lyakhov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Interacting Quasi-Two-Dimensional Sheets of Interlinked Carbon Nanotubes: A High-Pressure Phase of Carbon

(2010) Sumit Saxena et al.   ACS Nano

Superconducting ultraincompressible hard cubic Re4C

(2010) Zhisheng Zhao et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Bulk Re2C: Crystal Structure, Hardness, and Ultra-incompressibility

(2010) Zhisheng Zhao et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Superhard and superconducting structures of BC5

(2010) Quan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Semiconducting Superhard Ruthenium Monocarbide

(2010) Zhisheng Zhao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Prediction of a Three-Dimensional Conductive Superhard Material: Diamond-like BC2

(2010) Lifang Xu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Design of Superhard Ternary Compounds under High Pressure: SiC2N4 and Si2CN4

(2010) Hongbo Wang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Pressure-induced structural phase transition of small-diameter carbon nanotubes

(2010) Masahiro Sakurai et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Prediction of a conducting hard ductile cubic IrC

(2010) Zhisheng Zhao 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

Hypothetical low-energy chiral framework structure of group 14 elements

(2010) Chris J. Pickard et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Superhard and superconductive polymorphs of diamond-like BC3

(2010) Hanyu Liu et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Superhard Monoclinic Polymorph of Carbon

(2009) Quan Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Thermodynamic aspects of materials’ hardness: prediction of novel superhard high-pressure phases

(2008) V. A. Mukhanov et al.   HIGH PRESSURE RESEARCH

Refined Crystal Structure and Mechanical Properties of Superhard BC4N Crystal: First-Principles Calculations

(2008) Xiaoguang Luo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C