CONTENTS

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Production, Structure, Properties

Perevertailo V. M. Capillary phenomena in phase transitions

3

Shipilo V. B., Urbanovich. V. S., and Shipilo N. V. Production and properties of ceramic materials based on diamond and aluminum nitride

16

Bakay A. S., Bratchenko M. I, and Fateev M. P. Molecular-dynamic simulation of atomic structure and physical properties of amorphous carbon films. Report 2

20

Tkach V. N., Ilnitskaya G. D., Nevstruev G. F., and Kuzmenko E. F. SEM studies of the surface defects of diamond single crystals

26

Gontar A. G., Kutsay A. M., Khandozhko S. I., Gorokhov V. Yu., Litvin P. M., and Belitskii G. M. Nanostructural peculiarities of the morphology of the surface of a-C:H films deposited from hydrocarbon plasma

35

Petrusha I. A., Oleinik G. S., and Danilento N. V. Mechanisms of primary recrystallization in sintering of materials based on catalytically synthesized cBN powders

39

Shulzhenko A. A., Bochechka A. A., Romanko L. A., Kutsay A. M., and Gargin V. G. Peculiarities of sintering of vacuum heat-treated nanometric diamond powders

50

Nachalnaya T. A., Malogolovets V. G., Podzyarey G. A., Ivakhnenko S. A., Zanevskii O. A., Ostrovskaya L. Yu., and Ralchenko V. G. EPR and IR spectroscopy of synthetic diamonds approaching type Ia and type IIa natural diamonds in properties

57

Nizhenko V. I. Surface properties of carbon-saturated metal melts

65

Resolution of the Scientific Seminar on Diamond-Like Materials: Production, Structure, Properties

79

Investigation of Machining Processes

Sheiko M. N. Contacting grains in grinding. Report 3. The Monte-Carlo method as a criterion for adequacy of the competitive probabilistic approaches

80

Letters to the Editor

Solozhenko V. L. and Solozhenko E. G. On the problem of compressibility of graphite

84

Index of papers published in Sverkhtverdye Materialy in 2000

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