{"id":178244,"date":"2023-12-13T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/newly-created-ultra-hard-material-rivals-diamond"},"modified":"2023-12-13T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:22:23","slug":"newly-created-ultra-hard-material-rivals-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/newly-created-ultra-hard-material-rivals-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Newly created ultra-hard material rivals diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-created-ultra-hard-material-rivals-diamond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potentially very useful discovery.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have solved a decades-long puzzle and unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond as the hardest material on Earth. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202308030\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that when carbon and nitrogen precursors were subjected to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extreme+heat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme heat<\/a> and pressure, the resulting materials\u2014known as carbon nitrides\u2014were tougher than cubic boron nitride, the second hardest material after diamond.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough opens doors for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/multifunctional+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">multifunctional materials<\/a> to be used for industrial purposes including protective coatings for cars and spaceships, high-endurance cutting tools, solar panels and photodetectors, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially very useful discovery. Scientists have solved a decades-long puzzle and unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond as the hardest material on Earth. The research is published in the journal Advanced Materials. Researchers found that when carbon and nitrogen precursors were subjected to extreme heat and pressure, the resulting materials\u2014known as carbon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}