Lonsdaleite is faulted and twinned cubic diamond and does not exist as a discrete material

2014/11/20 by Péter Németh, L. A. J. Garvie, Laurence A. J. Garvie +4 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #High-pressure geophysics and materials

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/ncomms6447

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Citations

• Quantitative measurement of displacement and strain fields from HREM micrographs
• Lonsdaleite, a Hexagonal Polymorph of Diamond
• The pressure-temperature phase and transformation diagram for carbon; updated through 1994
• Implementation of micro-ball nanodiamond anvils for high-pressure studies above 6 Mbar
• Harder than Diamond: Superior Indentation Strength of Wurtzite BN and Lonsdaleite
• New evidence of meteoritic origin of the Tunguska cosmic body
• Hexagonal diamond synthesis on h-GaN strained films
• Ultrahard polycrystalline diamond from graphite

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