Diamond-based composites, with their advantages of hardness, high Young's modulus and the like, have demonstrated new and unusual features, such as stability to high temperatures and pressure shocks and a large internal surface that can be controlled to offer customised electrical, magnetic and optical properties, leading to efficient filters, absorbents, sensors and other tools for environmental control and monitoring.
The current book covers the synthesis of materials, their characterization and properties, trends in high pressure and high temperature technologies, low pressure technologies, basic principles of DBC material science, and future developments in electronics, optics, industrial tools and components, biotechnology, and medicine. Wide band-gap materials are considered, ranging from molecular clusters, nanophase materials, growth, processing and synthesis.
The processing of composite based materials can be classified into six basic methods: in situ growth, high pressure/high temperature catalytic conversion; mix and sinter (c-BN plus metal-ceramic polymer mix); direct sintering; direct polymorphic conversion; shock detonation; and SHS sintering.

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1. Diamond and Related Based Composites.- Advance Composite Materials On the Diamond Base.- Diamond Composites for Grinding Applications.- Hot Pressing of Nanodiamond Powder.- Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond Films on Diamond Compacts.- The Diamond and Hard Alloy-Based Composite Material.- Growth Kinetics of Cubic Boron Nitride Films and Composites.- Phase Transformations In Ultradispersed Boron Nitride under the Conditions of High Pressures and Temperatures.- Composite Materials Based on Cubic Boron Nitride: Structure and Properties.- Comparion Between DC and RF Magnetron Sputtered Aluminum Nitride Films.- Aluminum Nitride Composite Films.- Allotropic Forms of Carbon Nitride.- Phase Transition in C:N Films under Shock Wave Compression.- 2. Nanoclusters.- Copper Nanoclusters in DLC.- X-ray Absorption Study of Copper Clusters Embedded into Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon.- Fractal Structure of Copper Clusters Embedded in DLC.- On the Copper-Carbon Interaction in Cu-Doped Diamond-Like Carbon.- Verification of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films' Quality.- 3. Properties.- The Surface Structure of Carbon Films Deposited by Different Plasmachemical Methods.- Direct Observations of the Elastic Modulus and Tensile Strength of CVD Diamond Films and Fibers.- Magnetic Resonance Studies of Solid-State Hydriogen and Hydrogen-Related Defects.- Photothermal Determination of the Thermal Conductivity of Superhard Thin Films.- Effect of Light on the Performances of CVD Diamond Nuclear Detectors.- Open-Circuit Mobility Measurements in DLC Thin Films.- Native and Light Induced Defect States in Wide Band-Gap Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon-Carbon (A-Si1-xCx:H) Alloy Thin Films.- Genesis of Defects Suitable For High-Temperature Spectral Hole Burning in Diamond.- Raman Spectroscopy of AmorphousDiamondlike Carbon Films Produced With a Mass-Separated Ion Beam and Pulsed Arc Discharge.- ESR Study of Neutron Irradiated Doped Diamond Films.- Diamond Based P-I-N Transistor.- Nature of the Origin of Non-Linear Current Voltage Characteristics in Polycrystalline Diamond Materials.- Radiation Induced Modifications of Diamond.- Nanophase Diamond Containing Material Based on Detonation Synthesis Powders.- Cluster Polymers Composites on Basis of Diamond Containing Nanocarbon of Explosive Synthesis.- Superhard Composites of Cubic Boron Nitride.- Issues In c-BN Composites.- Workshop Participants.- Index of Authors.