Tailoring Building Blocks and Their Boundary Interaction for the Creation of New, Potentially Superhard, Carbon Materials.

Yao, Mingguang; Cui, Wen; Du, Mingrun; Xiao, Junping; Yang, Xigui; Liu, Shijie; Liu, Ran; Wang, Fei et al. · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A strategy for preparing hybrid carbon structures with amorphous carbon clusters as hard building blocks by compressing a series of predesigned two-component fullerides is presented. In such constructed structures the building blocks and their boundaries can be tuned by changing the starting components, providing a way for the creation of new hard/superhard materials with desirable properties.