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The structural aspect of high-pressure superhard phase synthesis

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Structural aspects are considered for the direct phase transitions in carbon and boron nitride at high pressures from the viewpoint of martensite and diffusion transitions. The mechanism for the transitions of graphite and graphite-type BN into superhardphases is controlled primarily by the crystalline perfection of the initial structures that show martensite transformations to metastable phases (lonsdaleite and BN wurtzite allotrope), while highly defective ones show diffusion transformation to high-pressure stable phases (diamond and cubic boron nitride). The perfection in the initial structure has a very marked effect on the transformation mechanism during shock compression, which is the main technique in the commercial production of superhard phases.

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Institute of Materials Science, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Nos. 7/8(380), pp. 83–92, July–August, 1995.

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Kurdyumov, A.V. The structural aspect of high-pressure superhard phase synthesis. Powder Metall Met Ceram 34, 409–416 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00559433

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