Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Low temperature self-densification of high strength bulk hexagonal boron nitride

  • Haotian Yang,
  • Hailiang Fang,
  • Hui Yu,
  • Yongjun Chen,
  • Lianjun Wang,
  • Wan Jiang,
  • Yiquan Wu,
  • Jianlin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08580-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

Sintering hexagonal boron nitride until it is more than 96% dense remains a challenge. Here, the authors mix cubic boron nitride particles into hexagonal boron nitride flakes and sinter the combined powders to obtain dense hexagonal boron nitride ceramics with significantly increased strength.