Fabrication and characterization of M2SnC (M = Ti, Zr, Hf and Nb)
Fabrication and characterization of M2SnC (M = Ti, Zr, Hf and Nb)
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DOI:
10.1016/s1359-6462(97)00288-1
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发表时间:
1997-11-15
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6
通讯作者:
Tyagi, S
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作者:
Barsoum, MW;Yaroschuk, G;Tyagi, S
The structures of the transition metal/tin carbides with the general formula M# nC, where M= Ti, Zr, Hf and Nb, were first reported by Jeitschko and Nowotny in the early sixties and seventies in a series of papers that dealt with carbides with the general formula M&C, the so-called H-phases, where X is a B-group element (l-3). The H-phases are ternary layered compounds in which layers of edge-shared transition metal carbide octahedra are separated from each other by hexagonal nets of the B-group element. Over 40 H-phases have been identified (3), with the planes separating the transition metal carbide layers being as diverse as Al, Ga, In, Tl, Sn, Ge, Pb, S, As, Cd, Zn and P (3, 7). In the original work, the Sri-containing ternary carbides were synthesized by sealing samples comprised of the ‘elements in the appropriate molar ratios in evacuated quartz tubes and heating them to 800 C for multiple hundreds of hours (1, 2). The samples were powdered, X-rayed and their lattice parameters calculated (Table 2). To the best of our knowledge no additional information is available in the literature about these compounds since the original reports of Nowotny and co-workers. Consequently, nothing is known about their properties.Our initial results on some of these temaries have shown them to be solids with a combination of unique properties (4-7). As a class these temaries have relatively low hardnesses (4-6 GPa), high electrical conductivities (2-5 x lo6 SL’m-‘) and are as readily machinable as graphite. At temperatures above 1200 C they deform plastically with yield points that are quite high (> lOO MPa) for that temperature. In addition, Ti $ iCz is not susceptible to thermal shock, has good oxidation resistance (1 x 10” kg2nl% V’at 1OOO’C) and is a good (43 W/m K) heat conductor (4). The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to describe a processing technique by which we were able to fabricate, for the first time, fully dense, single phase polycrystalline samples of the four known Sn-containing H-phases, namely: TizSnC, ZrzSnC, Hf $ SnC, Nb $ nC. The second is to present some preliminary property measurements that were carried out on these compounds.