TY - JOUR AU - Kurakevych, Oleksandr AU - Solozhenko, Vladimir TI - High-Pressure Design of Advanced BN-Based Materials JO - Molecules VL - 21 IS - 10 SN - 1420-3049 CY - Basel PB - MDPI M1 - PUBDB-2016-04607 SP - 1399 PY - 2016 AB - The aim of the present review is to highlight the state of the art in high-pressure design of new advanced materials based on boron nitride. Recent experimental achievements on the governing phase transformation, nanostructuring and chemical synthesis in the systems containing boron nitride at high pressures and high temperatures are presented. All these developments allowed discovering new materials, e.g., ultrahard nanocrystalline cubic boron nitride (nano-cBN) with hardness comparable to diamond, and superhard boron subnitride B<sub>13</sub>N<sub>2</sub>. Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of high-pressure synthesis are described based on the data obtained by in situ and ex situ methods. Mechanical and thermal properties (hardness, thermoelastic equations of state, etc.) are discussed. New synthetic perspectives, combining both soft chemistry and extreme pressure–temperature conditions are considered. View Full-Text LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000389917900136 C6 - pmid:27775629 DO - DOI:10.3390/molecules21101399 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/311253 ER -