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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 613, Issue -, Pages 1-7Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.05.221
Keywords
Boron nitride; Texture; Anisotropy; Ion erosion resistance
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- Natural Sciences Foundation of China [51372050, 50902030, 51021002, 51225203]
- Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities [HIT.NSRIF.2010112]
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Since the hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) grain shows typical lamellar structures, textured materials can be obtained by arranging h-BN grains along one direction. In this work, textured h-BN composite ceramics with the c-axis orientation arranged along the pressure direction are manufactured by hot-press sintering using mullite as the sintering additive. The results show that sintering pressures not only play a major role in the density and the textured degrees of composite ceramics, but also influence Xe ion erosion resistance performances. After Xe ion sputtering, compositions of both h-BN and mullite stay stable, while the elemental compositions have changed due to the so-called preferential sputtering. Sputtered surfaces along different orientations show diverse morphologies attributed to the textured microstructures. The erosion mechanisms of h-BN grains during Xe ion sputtering are breaking of B-N bonds and delamination of BN layers. While the mass loss of composite ceramics is due to the erosion of h-BN grains and mullite coupled with partial detachment of h-BN grains from the surface. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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