CONTENTS

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Production, Structure, Properties

Britun V. F., Kurdyumov A. V., and Petrusha I. A. Crystallographically oriented rBN–gBN–wBN–cBN transformations in pyrolytic BN

 3

Golovchan V. T. Analysis of the applicability of the simplest model of a viscoplastic medium for studying kinetics of densification in sintering of diamond polycrystals

 8

Blank V. D., Nuzhdin A. A., Aksenenkov V. V., Kulnitskii B. A., Belogorokhov A. I., and Klenov V. S. Carbon-nitrogen structures obtained in the electrodischarge process

 19

Kovtun V. I., Vasilkovskaya M. A., and Zaulichny Ya. V. Effect of shock-wave processing on the valence band structure in synthetic diamond powders.

 24

Shulzhenko A. A., Sokolov A. N., Dub S. N., and Belyavina N. N. Crystalline structure and properties of superhard phases formed in the B–B₂O₃–gBN system under high pressures and temperatures

 30

Novikov N. V., Ositinskaya T. D., Mikhalenkov V. S., and Chernyashevskii A. V. Study of the charge state of a vacancy in an electron-irradiated type Ia diamond by positron annihilation

 36

Chukhaeva S. I. and Cheburina L. A. Sorption activity of nanodiamonds on cesium

 43

Alfer S. A., Bulgak I. A., Makovetskaya L. A., Rumyantseva I. N., Shempel N. A., and Shipilo V. B. Effect of thermal treatment on strength characteristics of synthetic diamonds

 49

Yakovlev E. N., Antonovich A. A., Kozorezov E. V., and Samorodskii P. N. The use of X-ray computer-aided microtomograph to study the metal catalyst distribution in diamond polycrystals grown from graphite

 54

Koptil V. I. and Zinchuk N. N. The change in diamond properties under natural atomic irradiation

 61

Voznyakovskii A. P., Klyubin V. V., Dolmatov V. Yu., and Agibalova L. V. Structure and sedimentation stability of suspensions of detonation nanodiamonds in nonaqueous liquid media

 64

Bogatyreva G. P., Ishchenko E. V., Marinich M. A., Yatsimirskii A. V., and Gvyazdovskaya V. L., Catalytic properties of Pd, Pd–Ag and Ag applied on diamond submicron powders

 72

Investigation of Machining Processes

Anelchik D. E., Mironenko S. V., and Sazonov I. P. Stress-strain state of surface layers of coated parts in grinding

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Shepelev A. A. and Pasichnyi O. O. Procedure of diamond machining of ball-shaped parts of structural ceramics

81

Tools, Powders, Pastes

Devin L. N. and Gargin V. G. Fine-grained diamond-carbide tool blanks for turning aluminum alloys

 85

Symposia, Conferences, Seminars

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