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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 2968-2973Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.12.019
Keywords
High-entropy ceramics; High-entropy borides; Rare earth tetraboride; In-situ reactive sintering; Rule of mixture
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- Office of Naval Research MURI program [N00014-15-1-2863]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-19-1-0327]
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Six high-entropy rare earth tetraborides with tetragonal structure were synthesized successfully, expanding the family of high-entropy ceramics. The specimens, prepared using high-energy ball mill and in-situ reactive spark plasma sintering, exhibited high relative density and Vickers microhardness.
Six high-entropy rare earth tetraborides of the tetragonal UB4-prototyped structure have been successfully synthesized for the first time. The specimens are prepared from elemental precursors via high-energy ball mill and in-situ reactive spark plasma sintering. The sintered specimens are >98 % in relative densities without detectable oxide impurities (albeit the presence of minor hexaborides in some compositions). No detectable secondary phase is observed in the composition (Y0.2Nd0.2Sm0.2Gd0.2Tb0.2)B-4, which is proven homogeneous at both microscale and nanoscale. The Vickers microhardness are determined to be similar to 13 similar to 15 GPa at a standard indentation load of 9.8 N. A scientifically interesting observation is represented by the anisotropic lattice distortion from the rule-of-mixture averages. This work expands the family of high-entropy ceramics via fabricating a new class of high-entropy borides with a unique tetragonal quasi-layered crystal structure.
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