Nanosilicon between diamond and sapphire

Silicon nanospheres are four times harder than traditional silicon in electronics. Specifically, they present a hardness between diamond and sapphire, the hardest known materials.

In addition to obtaining the data, in this case the measurement itself has been very important, since researchers have developed a method the mechanical properties of materials at nanoscale.

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