T. Komatsu et al., SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A SHOCK-SYNTHESIZED CUBIC B-C-N SOLID-SOLUTION OF COMPOSITION BC2.5N, Journal of materials chemistry, 6(11), 1996, pp. 1799-1803
A cubic BC2.5N solid solution (c-BC2.5N) was synthesized in 18% yield
by shock-compression of a hexagonal BC2.5N compound. c-BC2.5N was conf
irmed to have a diamond structure without a long range order of atomic
arrangement. The material is a polycrystal composed of microcrystals
of 5-20 nm in size. All constituent atoms are teterahedrally coordinat
ed, giving C-C, C-B, C-N, and B-N bonds, and are homogeneously distrib
uted on the lattice planes rather than showing a full short range orde
r of atomic arrangement.