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Wolfram Alpha tells me that to bring 10 sq. cm of the material to 1GPa would require 18x the bite force of a T-Rex. I don't consider the inside of a dinosaur's mouth "room pressure" either, but I could imagine a reasonably-sized housing capable of producing that force.

Another comparison for scale: It is 1/6th the pressure at which artificial diamonds are manufactured.

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T-Rex bite strength sounds like something Abe Simpson would say. 16% of diamond pressure is a lot.

But diamond pressure is something that we are already capable of on a regular basis.

This would put it into the realm of engineering problems at least for some applications if this claim turns out to be true.

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