Structure, bonding, and possible superhardness of CrB4

Unusual rigidity and ideal strength of CrB4 and MnB4

(2012) Huiyang Gou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Families of Superhard Crystalline Carbon Allotropes Constructed via Cold Compression of Graphite and Nanotubes

(2012) Haiyang Niu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2011) Haiyang Niu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Possible routes for synthesis of new boron-rich Fe–B and Fe1−xCrxB4 compounds

(2011) A. F. Bialon et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Crystal Structure Refinement and Bonding Patterns of CrB4: A Boron-Rich Boride with a Framework of Tetrahedrally Coordinated B Atoms

(2011) Arno Knappschneider et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Modeling hardness of polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses

(2011) Xing-Qiu Chen et al.   INTERMETALLICS

Recent Attempts to Design New Super- and Ultrahard Solids Leads to Nano-Sized and Nano-Structured Materials and Coatings

(2011) S. Veprek   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Denser than diamond:Ab initiosearch for superdense carbon allotropes

(2011) Qiang Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Hardness ofT-carbon: Density functional theory calculations

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

Low-Temperature Phase Transformation from Graphite tosp3Orthorhombic Carbon

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

Anisotropy in electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of superhard body-centered tetragonal C4 phase of carbon

(2010) P. Y. Wei et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

First-principles study of CrB4 as a high shear modulus compound

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

Theoretical hardness and ideal tensile strength of bct-C4

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

Body-Centered TetragonalC4: A Viablesp3Carbon Allotrope

(2010) Koichiro Umemoto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

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

High-hardness B4C textured by a strong magnetic field technique

(2010) Salvatore Grasso et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Full elastic tensor of a crystal of the superhard compound ReB2

(2009) J.B. Levine et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Advancements in the Search for Superhard Ultra-Incompressible Metal Borides

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

A grid-based Bader analysis algorithm without lattice bias

(2009) W Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

On the hardness of a new boron phase, orthorhombic γ-B28

(2009) V. L. Solozhenko et al.   Journal of Superhard Materials

Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron

(2009) Artem R. Oganov et al.   NATURE

Superhard Monoclinic Polymorph of Carbon

(2009) Quan Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Superhard Semiconducting Optically Transparent High Pressure Phase of Boron

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

Ultimate Metastable Solubility of Boron in Diamond: Synthesis of Superhard DiamondlikeBC5

(2009) Vladimir L. Solozhenko et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Preparation and Properties of Metallic, Superhard Rhenium Diboride Crystals

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

Cleavage fracture of a crystal: Density functional theory calculations based on a model which includes structural relaxations

(2008) P. Lazar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

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

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