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Production, Structure, Properties

Bezhenar M. P., Konoval S. M., Bozhko S. A., Loshak M. G., Aleksandrova L. I., Zaika M. I., Nagornyi P. A., and Bilyavina H. M. Physico-mechanical properties of cBN composites produced by the high-pressure sintering of cubic boron nitride with aluminum powders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Dolmatov V. Yu.  Detonation nanodiamonds in oils and lubricants.

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Sivkov A. A. and Pak A. Ya. On the possibility of the dynamic synthesis of ultradispersed crystalline phases of the B–C–N system in a hyperhigh-speed plasma jet. . . . . . . . .

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Lisovskii A. F. On the thermodynamic interpretation of the Laplace pressure. . . . .

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Fesenko I. P., Serbenyuk T. B., Chasnyk V. I., Bilovol V. S., Kolodnyts’kyi V. M., Loshak M. G., Marchenko A. A., Tuz Yu. M., Strunina Yu. O., Tkach S. V., Fesenko E. I., and Shashurin I. P. Physicotechnical properties of wurtzitic AlN-based ceramics and composites with ceramic matrix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Investigation of Machining Processes

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Shchetnikovich K. G. Investigation into the kinematics of balls from brittle nonmetallic materials in fine grinding with coaxial ring tools of superhard materials. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Strel’chuk P. M. and Uzunyan M. D. Analysis of the energy intensity of the diamond-spark grinding of the VolKar nanostructural hard alloy. . . . . . . . . . . .

Tools, Powders, Pastes

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Dutka V. A. Computer simulation of the development of the drop in mechanical properties on the holder surface of a hard alloy cutter due to hardening caused by the induction brazing. . . . 

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