Cotunnite-structured titanium dioxide: the hardest known oxide

Details Cotunnite-structured titanium dioxide: the hardest known oxide Cotunnite-structured titanium dioxide: the hardest known oxide

2009-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1464v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

This is full version of the paper published as Brief Communications in Nature, 410, 653-654

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Despite great technological importance and many investigations, a material with measured hardness comparable to that of diamond or cubic boron nitride has yet to be identified. Combined theoretical and experimental investigations led to the discovery of a new polymorph of titanium dioxide with titanium nine-coordinated to oxygen in the cotunnite (PbCl2) structure. Hardness measurements on the cotunnite-structured TiO2 synthesized at pressures above 60 GPa and temperatures above 1000 K reveal that this material is the hardest oxide yet discovered. Furthermore, it is one of the least compressible (with a measured bulk modulus of 431 GPa) and hardest (with a microhardness of 38 GPa) polycrystalline materials studied thus far.

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