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Research progress of spectra and properties of ultrahard carbon materials at high pressure and high temperature

Zhiqiang Hou ,
Haikuo Wang ,
Yao Tang ,
Jiakun Wu ,
Chao Wang ,
Zhicai Zhang ,
Xiaoping Ouyang
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
DOI: 10.1080/26941112.2022.2163857
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Abstract

Carbon, the fourth most abundant element in the Universe, possesses numerous allotropes with diverse bonding character (sp1-, sp2- and sp3-hybridized bonds) and structural motif of the constituting atoms. In particular, the carbon materials with a fully or nearly 100% sp3-hybridized strong C-C bonds often lead to excellent mechanical properties, chemical stability, thermal and optical properties, such as crystalline diamond and diamond-like amorphous carbon (DLC). In this review, we systematically summarize the synthesis, microstructure, mechanical properties, thermal and optical properties of ultrahard carbon materials with current experimental results on nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD), nanotwinned diamond (NTD), micro-grained polycrystalline diamond (MPD), and amorphous diamond/carbon. In addition, we discuss the difference of spectra of XRD, Raman and EELS between various nanocrystalline diamond powder and ultrahard carbon materials. Finally, we provide our insights into the future development and applications in the research of ultrahard carbon bulk materials by high-pressure and high-temperature techniques according to the current advantages, limitations and challenges in the experiment.

Keywords

Carbon; diamond; amorphous; spectra; properties; high pressure and high temperature (HPHT)

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