Pure hydrogen production derived from electrocatalytic water splitting is generally
considered as the most promising and environmentally friendly strategy for sustainable …

Heterogeneous catalysis is a vivid branch of traditional catalysis field, with the advantage of
high efficiency and being easily separated from reactants and products after reaction, and …

High-entropy ceramics and their composites display high mechanical strength and attractive
high-temperature stabilities. However, properties like strong covalent bond character and …

An ensemble machine‐learning method is demonstrated to be capable of finding superhard
materials by directly predicting the load‐dependent Vickers hardness based only on the …

Conspectus Mechanical hardness is a physical property used to gauge the applications of
materials in the manufacturing and machining industries. Because of their high hardness …

Zirconium diboride (ZrB2) is an important ultra-high-temperature ceramic, which exhibits
outstanding mechanical properties and is widely used in extreme environments. Extensive …

An enduring quest in materials research is to reconcile two of the most prominent yet often
conflicting mechanical properties, hardness and toughness. Strong covalent solids like …

Vanadium diboride (VB2) with an AlB2-type structure has been synthesized at 8 GPa and
1700 K in a D-DIA-type multianvil apparatus. The obtained bulk modulus is B 0= 262 (2) …

Metal diborides are a class of ceramic materials with crystal structures consisting of
hexagonal sheets of boron atoms alternating with planes of metal atoms held together with …

Solid solutions of tungsten diboride (WB2) with increasing substitution of tungsten (W) by
tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb)—ranging from 0 to 50 at.% on a metals basis—were …