Thin films based on transition-metal carbides exhibit many interesting physical and chemical
properties making them attractive for a variety of applications. The most widely used method …

Over the past decades, enormous effort has been dedicated to enhancing the hardness of
refractory ceramic materials. Typically, however, an increase in hardness is accompanied by …

Although high-entropy carbides (HECs) have hardness often superior to that of parent
compounds, their brittleness—a problem shared with most ceramics—has severely limited …

First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Dual-phase high-entropy alloys (HEAs), having the potential to overcome the strength-
plasticity trade-off, are expected to possess exceptional tribological properties in a wide …

Based on the idea that the hardness of covalent crystal is intrinsic and equivalent to the sum
of the resistance to the indenter of each bond per unit area, a semiempirical method for the …

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with superb compositions, and musicians have been making attempts to vivify the …

Seeking structure-property relationships is an accepted paradigm in materials science, yet
these relationships are often not linear, and the challenge is to seek patterns among multiple …

Lattice dynamics of body-centered cubic (bcc) V b-VI b group transition metals (TM), and B 1-
type monocarbides and mononitrides of III b-VI b transition metals are studied by means of …

The synthesis of high-purity bulk nanostructured cubic boron nitride (cBN) at 20 GPa and
1770 K by direct phase transformation of graphite-like BN with an" ideal random layer" …