Two softer materials can synthesize a substance that is harder than diamonds. Who believes? But now researchers in the United States and Germany are turning it into reality.
According to a recent report by the German newspaper Le Monde, researchers from Washington State University and Madison University of Wisconsin and Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, have jointly developed a new type of synthetic material that is harder than diamonds. And understand the formation and evolution of the geological structure within the Earth.
The research results were published in the recently published Science Weekly. Dennis Kochmann of Ruhr University in Bochum pointed out: "These synthetic materials include barium titanate which has undergone phase transformation."
The two raw materials they use – barium titanate and tin – are softer than any one of them, but the combination of the researchers has created a new material with a much harder texture.
Researchers have speculated that the relatively hard material inside the Earth is probably also composed of softer materials.
Source of information: China Superhard Materials Network