Superhard materials are diamond, cubic boron nitride(CBN) and composite materials made of these two materials as a general term. The upstream is mainly raw and auxiliary materials and special equipment, and the downstream is all kinds of products and functional devices made of superhard materials.

Superhard materials have important dual-use properties for both military and civilian applications.

Superhard materials and products, due to their excellent performance, have become the unrivaled choice for ultra-precision processing, high-speed and high-efficiency processing, and green y processing in the civilian sector. They are widely applied in key fields of the national economy such as high-end numerical control machine tools, chip manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, photovoltaic new energy, oil and gas drilling, and biomedicine.

In military applications, it can not only serve as the necessary processing tools and advanced materials during manufacturing in extreme environments, but also solve the problem of efficient and precise processing of difficult-to-machine materials in various fields. At the same time, it can exert excellent performance in functional applications and solve the usage problems of functional devices in fields such as national defense and military industry, aerospace, nuclear industry, integrated circuits, and new-generation information technology.

According to statistics, the output value of China’s superhard materials (including the upstream and downstream) has ranked first in the world and exceeded 100 billion yuan in scale. The output of abrasive-grade synthetic diamond has exceeded 20 billion carats, accounting for more than 95% of the global share.

Among superhard materials, “diamond”, in addition to being the hardest substance currently known, also possess excellent properties in aspects such as sound, light, electricity, magnetism, and heat. They are hailed as the “King of Materials” and the “Ultimate Semiconductor”, and are one of the most promising materials in the 21st century.