title: Tailoring Building Blocks and Their Boundary Interaction for the Creation of New, Potentially Superhard, Carbon Materials.
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.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Mingguang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Mingrun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Junping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Xigui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Shijie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.|Department of Physics, Umeå University, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Bertil
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sundqvist
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
authors.forename: Bingbing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
keywords: amorphous carbon clusters; high hardness; high pressure; phase transitions; solvated fullerenes