Double-zigzag boron chain-enhanced Vickers hardness and manganese bilayers-induced high d-electron mobility in Mn<sub>3</sub>B<sub>4</sub>

Ma, Shengqiang; Bao, Kuo; Tang, Qiang; Xu, Chao; Feng, Xiaokang; Zhao, Xiaole; Ge, Yufei; Zhu, Pinwen; Cui, Tian

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“…Hard and superhard materials (≥40 GPa) are very important industrial materials, which are widely used in various industrial applications because of their high hardness, ultracompressibility, high melting point, and excellent thermal stability etc . In comparison to diamond and boron nitride ( c ‐BN), the transition metal borides (TMBs) are attractive potential superhard materials because of the network and shorter covalent bonding such as BB covalent bond and TMB bond . Diborides (TMB 2 ) and transition metal tetraborides (TMB 4 ) have been widely investigated over the last years .…”

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Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Pan

Lin

2020

Int J of Quantum Chemistry

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Although ZrB 12 is a promising advanced material because of the boron cuboctahedron cages, the hardness of ZrB 12 remains controversy. Here, we apply first-principles calculations to study the influence of transition metals (4d-and 5d-) on the hardness and thermodynamic properties of ZrB 12 . The calculated hardness of ZrB 12 is 32.9 GPa, which is in good agreement with the previous theoretical result. Importantly, the calculated hardness of Re-doped ZrB 12 is up to 40.0 GPa, which is a potential superhard material. The essential reason is that the alloying element of Re enhances the localized hybridization of B B and Zr B atoms, and then forms the strong B B covalent bond and Zr B bond. The result is well demonstrated by the chemical bonding and lattice parameter. Here, our work shows that the alloying elements of Nb, Mo, and Re enhance the thermodynamic properties of ZrB 12 . The Debye temperature of Re-doped ZrB 12 is 1225.2 K, which is larger than that of the parent ZrB 12 (1213.5 K). K E Y W O R D S borides, elastic modulus, first-principles calculations, hardness, thermodynamic properties, ZrB 12 1 | INTRODUCTION Hard and superhard materials (≥40 GPa) are very important industrial materials, which are widely used in various industrial applications because of their high hardness, ultracompressibility, high melting point, and excellent thermal stability etc. [1-10] In comparison to diamond and boron nitride (c-BN), the transition metal borides (TMBs) are attractive potential superhard materials because of the network and shorter covalent bonding such as B B covalent bond and TM B bond. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Diborides (TMB 2 ) and transition metal tetraborides (TMB 4 ) have been widely investigated over the last years. [20][21][22][23][24] However, the reported Vickers hardness of TMB 2 or TMB 4 is difficult to meet the requirement of superhard material. [25][26][27][28][29] Naturally, the Vickers hardness of TMBs mainly relies on the shorter and network covalent bonds. In other words, the high concentration of boron plays a crucial role in Vickers hardness of TMBs. Among these TMBs, it is obvious that the transition metal dodecaborides (TMB 12 ) are potential superhard materials in comparison to TMB 2 and TMB 4 .Recently, ZrB 12 has evoked great interest because of the high concentration of boron and the network B B covalent bonds. [30] This dodecaboride is composed of the boron cuboctahedron cage (24 atoms) and 12-coordinate transition metals at the center of cubic structure. This structural feature is possible to enhance the Vickers hardness of TMBs. However, the Vickers hardness of ZrB 12 remains controversy. Korozlu et al. have found that the calculated Vickers hardness of ZrB 12 is 40.1 GPa, which is believed to a potential superhard material. [31] However, the recent works have shown that the Vickers hardness of ZrB 12 is 35.4 GPa by Chen et al. [32] and 29.3 GPa by Li et al., [33] which are different from Korozlu's result. On the other hand, even if the Vickers hardness of ZrB 12 remains...

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Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations

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2020

Int J of Quantum Chemistry

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“…Compared to diamond and boron nitride superhard materials, transition metal borides (TMBs) are attractive superhard materials because of their fascinating mechanical, electronic and thermodynamic properties etc. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] However, hardness is a complex phenomenon, which is related to the structural conguration, chemical bonding, electronic structure, deformation, defects, etc. [10][11][12][13][14] For TMBs superhard materials, previous work has shown that the Vickers hardness is determined by the network and shorter B-B covalent bonds.…”

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Enhancing the Vickers hardness, melting point and thermodynamic properties of hafnium dodecaboride

2019

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“…47 ture of 1600-1800°C. 48 Some borides, including WB 3 , 49 MnB, 50 Mn 3 B 4 , 51 and MoB 4 , 52 were also synthesized successively with a high pressure and high temperature method. In addition, Fokwa's group employed the arc-melting procedures to prepare several Mo-B phases (i.e., Mo 2 B, α-MoB, β-MoB, and α-MoB 2 ), containing about 10% weight percentage of impurity phases.…”

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Intermetallic borides: structures, synthesis and applications in electrocatalysis

Chen

Zou

2020

Inorg. Chem. Front.

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Double-zigzag boron chain-enhanced Vickers hardness and manganese bilayers-induced high d-electron mobility in Mn₃B₄

Abstract: The D7b-type structure Mn3B4 was fabricated by high-temperature and high-pressure (HPHT) methods.

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Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Enhancing the Vickers hardness, melting point and thermodynamic properties of hafnium dodecaboride

Intermetallic borides: structures, synthesis and applications in electrocatalysis

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Double-zigzag boron chain-enhanced Vickers hardness and manganese bilayers-induced high d-electron mobility in Mn3B4

Abstract: The D7b-type structure Mn3B4 was fabricated by high-temperature and high-pressure (HPHT) methods.

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Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB12ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB12ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Enhancing the Vickers hardness, melting point and thermodynamic properties of hafnium dodecaboride

Intermetallic borides: structures, synthesis and applications in electrocatalysis

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Double-zigzag boron chain-enhanced Vickers hardness and manganese bilayers-induced high d-electron mobility in Mn₃B₄

Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations

Influence of alloying elements on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ZrB₁₂ceramics from first‐principles calculations