Scientists design new super-hard material

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UCLA scientists have made rhenium diboride an ultra-hard material. Rhenium diboride is seen here in powder form (left) made from heating the elements in a furnace and as a pellet made by a procedure called arc melting. Credit: UCLA
UCLA scientists have made rhenium diboride, an “ultra-hard material.” Rhenium diboride is seen here in powder form (left), made from heating the elements in a furnace, and as a pellet made by a procedure called arc melting. Credit: UCLA

Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.


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