CONTENTS

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Production, Structure, Properties

Novikov N.V., Leshchuk A. A., and Borimskii A. I. Computer-aided modeling of the crystallization regions of diamonds of different habits in cylindrical high-pressure apparatuses

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Petrusha I. A., Shulzhenko A. A., Klimenko S. A, Bezhenar N. P., Osipov A.S., Bozhko S. A., and Dub S. N. Strained-hardened cBN-based composite for cutting nickel alloys

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Kulikovskii V. Yu. and Kurdyumov A. V. Superhard carbon films with agraphite-like structure

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Britun V. F. Structure features of martensite transformations of graphite into lonsdaleite and diamond

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Prikhna A. I. A cylinder-piston high-pressure apparatus

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Fesenko I. P. AlN-based functional and structural materials

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Shipilo V. B., Dutov A. G., Shipilo N. V., Komar V. A., Azarko I. I., and Tseluevskii M. S. Kinetic peculiarities of diamond crystallization from the Mn-Ni-C melt

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Pshenichnaya O. V. Production of nanocrystalline composite powders by nitriding of titanium and zirconium

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Investigation of Machining Processes

Grabchenko A. I. and Fedorovich V. A. Effect of the anisotropy of crystallite properties on mutual destruction of the elements of the SHPM – grit system in

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Tools, Powders, Pastes

Lavrinenko V. I. The angle of shear stress direction is the key to the understanding of SHM tools

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Letters to the Editor

Solozhenko V. L., Kondratenko O. S., Litovchenko V. G., and Dmitruk N. L. On the refractive index of cubic boron carbonitride

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Smolyar A. S., Sozin Yu. I., Barkholenko V. A., Maloshtan S. N., Kuts V. A., Gurin V. G., Arkhipov A. P., Gerasimov A. Yu., Razvadovskii N. A., and Titenko A. N. On the existence of cubic graphite

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Jubilees, Dates

70th anniversary of Academician Nikolay V. Novikov

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