Extremely hard and tough high entropy nitride ceramics

Scientific Reports
Dmitry MoskovskikhAlexander Mukasyan

Abstract

Simultaneously hard and tough nitride ceramics open new venues for a variety of advanced applications. To produce such materials, attention is focused on the development of high-entropy ceramics, containing four or more metallic components distributed homogeneously in the metallic sublattice. While the fabrication of bulk high-entropy carbides and borides is well established, high-entropy nitrides have only been produced as thin films. Herein, we report on a newel three-step process to fabricate bulk high-entropy nitrides. The high-entropy nitride phase was obtained by exothermic combustion of mechanically-activated nanostructured metallic precursors in nitrogen and consolidated by spark plasma sintering. The fabricated bulk high-entropy nitride (Hf0.2Nb0.2Ta0.2Ti0.2Zr0.2)N demonstrates outstanding hardness (up to 33 GPa) and fracture toughness (up to 5.2 MPa∙m1/2), significantly surpassing expected values from mixture rules, as well as all other reported binary and high-entropy ceramics and can be used for super-hard coatings, structural materials, optics, and others. The obtained results illustrate the scalable method to produce bulk high-entropy nitrides with the new benchmark properties.

References

May 31, 2002·Acta Crystallographica. Section B, Structural Science·Alec BelskyPeter Luksch
Nov 28, 2018·Nature Communications·Pranab SarkerStefano Curtarolo
Jun 19, 2019·Nature Materials·Wenhao SunGerbrand Ceder
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Jun 24, 2021·Dalton Transactions : an International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry·Andrzej MikułaMaciej Kubowicz

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
electron diffraction
mechanical treatment
X-ray
scanning
transmission electron microscopy

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PDApp
Materials API

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