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JOURNAL OF PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND DIFFUSION
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 403-412Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s11669-019-00735-x
Keywords
Co-Cu-Tb system; copper solubility; grain boundary diffusion; Nd-Fe-B magnets; partial isothermal section; phase equilibria; Tb-rich corner
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- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [14.616.21.0093, RFMEFI61618X0093]
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic [LTARF18031]
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In recent years, the grain-boundary diffusion (GBD) and grain-boundary restructuring processes used in manufacturing Nd-Fe-B magnets show promise as procedures that allow one to increase their hysteretic characteristics. The processes are realized by adding various amounts of heavy-rare-earth metals (in the form of hydrides, oxides, intermetallic compounds, etc.) to powder mixtures. The additions decompose or melt during subsequent heat treatment, and their components diffuse into grains and remain within the grain-boundary phase and thus, increase the anisotropy field of the main-magnetic (Nd2Fe14B-based) phase and improve the grain-boundary structure, respectively. In the present study, we consider alloys near the Tb-3(Co0.6Cu0.4) composition as such an addition, which is of importance in designing the microstructure of Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets allowing us to economically alloy them with terbium (via GBD) simultaneously making copper and cobalt parts of the magnet composition. The phase equilibria in the Tb-rich corner of the Co-Cu-Tb system near the Tb-3(Co0.6Cu0.4) composition, which was found to be multiphase, are assessed based on electron microscopy studies, data from electron microprobe, x-ray diffraction, and differential thermal analyses, and from magnetic measurements. A portion of the isothermal section for compositions Tb-40at.% Co-50at.% Cu at 600 degrees C was constructed. The copper solubility in Tb-3(Co,Cu) and Tb-12(Co,Cu)(7), and Co solubility in the Tb(Cu,Co) compound were determined, which are up to 6.5, 14.5, and 10at.%, respectively. The possibility of hydrogenation of the multiphase composition with the formation of TbHx, and fine Co and Cu powders, which are components for diffusion in manufacturing permanent magnets, is demonstrated.
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