Scientific and Practical Centre for Materials Research offers consumers polycrystalline superhard material based on cubic boron nitride with nano-scale structure for cutting tool under a manufacturing agreement, and is looking for partners to conclude a distribution services agreement.

Blade tool made using polycrystalline superhard material based on cubic boron nitride is used for semi-finishing and finishing of hardened steels, cast irons and other hard-to-cut materials.

Technical and economic indicators:

heat resistance	1300–1500 K
Knupp hardness	30–40 GPa
ultimate compressive strength	2.6–3.2 GPa
crack resistance	11–13 MPa*m(1/2)
elastic modulus	530 GPa

Innovative manufacturing technology

The main direction of scientific research of the Center is condensed state physics; the creation of new magnetic, ferroelectric, semiconductor, metallic, superconducting, superhard and optical materials in the form of crystals, ceramics, disordered systems, nanomaterials and nanostructures - corresponds to the priority areas of fundamental and applied scientific research and the priority areas of scientific and technical activity. The goals and objectives of the Center are implemented in the course of a full innovation cycle, from fundamental and applied scientific research to the introduction of scientific and scientific and technical products into production.

The main goal of the Center is to organize and conduct research and development work in the field of physical and physico-chemical materials science, development and mastering the production of new types of competitive products. In accordance with this goal, the tasks of the Center are:
conducting fundamental and applied scientific research in accordance with the accepted priority areas of scientific and technological progress of the Republic of Belarus in the following areas:
- Physics of the condensed state;
- creation of new magnetic, ferroelectric, semiconductor, metallic, superconducting, superhard and optical materials in the form of crystals, ceramics, disordered systems, nanomaterials and nanostructures;
- physics of the impact of concentrated energy flows on condensed matter;
- development of methods and technologies for obtaining materials for functional and special purposes;
- metal-polymer composites;
- petrochemistry, wood chemistry and thin-film organic and inorganic materials;
- physics of non-destructive testing;
- development of methods and means of non-destructive testing and technical diagnostics of materials, products and technological processes;
- creation of scientific foundations of information technologies for non-destructive testing and technical diagnostics;
- composite materials and products from them;
- the use of impulse technologies for the creation and production of materials and products;
- vacuum equipment and technology;
- materials and equipment for applying protective and functional coatings;
- structural ceramics;
- medical materials, tools and equipment;
- special technologies;
ensuring the competitiveness of the created scientific and technical products and organizing its industrial development, including in the foreign market;
- development and implementation of mechanisms that provide economic, informational and other links between research, development, production and sale of new products;
- identification of fundamentally new ways of scientific and technological progress, the implementation of applied scientific research in priority areas of scientific and technical activity;
- development of recommendations on the use of the results of scientific research of the Center in practice, their support during development in production;
- conducting scientific examinations of the most important scientific, scientific, technical and national economic programs, innovative projects in the profile of the Center;
- studying and summarizing the achievements of world science in the profile of the Center and promoting their practical use;
- training of highly qualified scientific personnel through postgraduate studies, doctoral studies and competition;
- advanced training of scientists and specialists, including in foreign scientific centers;

The Center actively cooperates with foreign scientific centers. One of the forms of such cooperation is the implementation of joint scientific projects funded by international funds and organizations.

Currently, the Center is a leader in the field of solid state physics and physical materials science in the Republic of Belarus.

Consumers interested in purchasing polycrystalline superhard material based on cubic boron nitride with a nanoscale structure for cutting tools under a manufacturing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing a polycrystalline superhard material based on cubic boron nitride with a nanoscale structure for cutting tools under a distribution services agreement.