Shear modulus of polycrystalline rhenium diboride determined from surface brillouin spectroscopy

  • Sergey N. Tkachev
  • , Jonathan B. Levine
  • , Alexander Kisliuk
  • , Alexei P. Sokolov
  • , Shuqi Guo
  • , Justin T. Eng
  • , Richard B. Kaner

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Abstract

(Figure Presented) Surface Brillouin specotroscopy of a densified powder compact of rhenium diboride (see scanning electron microscopy image) results in a determined shear modulus of 223 GPa. This value is comparable to the shear modulus of c-BC2N and provides evidence for the superhard nature of ReB2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4284-4286
Number of pages3
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume21
Issue number42
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 13 2009
Externally publishedYes

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