Aluminum nitride (AlN) and silicon carbide (SiC) are both high-performance engineering ceramic materials, but there is a ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) say they have employed lasers on silicon carbide, a material used in nuclear fuel, to develop a new form of high-capacity media that ...

TASS/. Chemists from Russia and China have discovered a way of synthesizing a new ultra-hard material which is 50% harder than pobedit (cemented carbide) and which can be used down the road in ...