Grain boundaries in polycrystalline graphite nucleate sp3 carbon yet arrest diamond growth at crystallographic mismatches, producing kinetically trapped mixed sp2/sp3 states under HPHT conditions.
Smith, Mara Murri, Laurence A
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Grain-boundary-mediated kinetic arrest in graphite-to-diamond transformation
Grain boundaries in polycrystalline graphite nucleate sp3 carbon yet arrest diamond growth at crystallographic mismatches, producing kinetically trapped mixed sp2/sp3 states under HPHT conditions.