Diamond has long been regarded as the practical and theoretical hardness champion and has found uses ranging from industrial abrasives to a girl’s best friend. Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic ...

Boron Nitride (BN) exhibits multiple polymorphic forms, with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and cubic boron nitride (c-BN) being the most significant. h-BN is known for its graphite-like layered ...

Boron nitride (BN is a synthetic material, which although discovered in the early 19 th century was not developed as a commercial material until the latter half of the 20 th century. Boron and ...

Every discipline has its holy grail. For Siddha Pimputkar, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, it ...

It’s only a matter of time before a movie villain pulling off the crime of the century needs a cutting tool that is harder than anything else on Earth. Perhaps it’s a burglary that involves cutting ...

Boron nitride is a material that can occur in either soft or hard compounds. However, the forms of boron nitride and how they react to changes in pressure and temperature are significantly less well ...

Boron nitride is a chemical compound having chemical formula BN comprising equal numbers of nitrogen and boron atoms. BN exists in a number of crystalline forms and is isoelectronic to a similarly ...