Abstract: The invention relates to the field of synthetic materials and is industrially applicable in the manufacture of wear-resistant construction parts for use under conditions of elevated temperatures, loads, and aggressive media, for cutting and machining tools, and in medical equipment. The technical problem of optimization of the performance parameters of the material, including crack resistance, hardness, and wear resistance, is solved. The objective is achieved by the fact that a material based on zirconium dioxide, containing yttrium and obtained by directed crystallization from batch mixture melted in a cold container, contains at least two tetragonal phases whose axes of tetragonality are 80-90°. The components of the batch mixture for obtaining the material are contained in the following ratio (in mol %): yttrium oxide, 2.8-3.7; zirconium dioxide, the remainder.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the authentication of valuable securities and documents, preliminarily protected in a specific way. The technical result of the present invention is an increase in the signal to noise ratio.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the protection of securities, documents, and articles. A method of protection of documents, securities, or articles using quantum markers based on active nitrogen vacancy centers in nanocrystals of diamonds is proposed in the invention. The technical result is an increase in the reliability of the protection of the object of protection against falsification. The technical result is achieved by the fact that, in a method of protection of documents, securities, and articles that consists in the fact that the optical properties of NV centers of nanoparticles of diamond are used for protection against counterfeits, during the fabrication of the object of protection, nanoparticles of diamond measuring from 5 to 150 nm are introduced into it or into its constituent components. 1 dependent claim, 2 illustrations.