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Diamond-coated Steel

Posted by michael on from the girl's-best-friend dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Dutch chemist has successfully coated steel with a layer of diamond, opening the possibility for insanely strong tools that almost never wear out -- not to mention armor tough as, well, diamond-coated nails. From Science Blog."

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  1. Images by Pall+Agamemnides · · Score: 5, Informative

    This page has highly-magnified images of what this process does to steel. Here are direct links to the images:

    Not wanted: graphite on tool steel
    Wanted : a good-adhering diamond layer on tool steel with an intermediate layer of chromium nitride