Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 6.

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Effects of Pressure, Temperature and Grain Size on Synthesis and Structures of Fe-N Alloys

LIU Li1, YAO Bi1,2, ZHAO Xu-Dong1, GUO Xing-Yuan1, NING Fan-Long1, SU Wen-Hui1,3   

  1. 1. Departmentof Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China;
    2. Departmentof Material Science, Facultyof Science, National Universityof Singapore, 119260, Singapore;
    3. International Centerf or Material Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110015, China
  • Received:2001-02-19 Online:2002-01-24 Published:2002-01-24

Abstract: Effects of pressure, temperature and grain size on the solid state reaction between α-Fe and amorphous BN and crystal structures of the resultant of the reaction were studied by using mechanical milling and high pressure techniques at the temperatures ranging from 580 to 930 Kunder pressures between 1×10-3 Pa and 4 GPa. It was found that the pressures and refinement of grain size can greatly accelerate the solid state reaction process. There is a critical grain size for α-Fe, below which the reaction begins to occur. In the present experiment, this grain size was measured to be about 8 nm. The crystal structures of the resultants change with the variation of pressure and temperature. A new Fe-N alloy with orthorhombic structure was produced firstly at 2 GPa and 800 K. Single phase ε-FexN alloy can be obtained in the temperature range of 690 to 800 Kat the pressures of 3 to 4 GPa. However, the resultant is not any Fe-N alloy but Fe3Balloy when the pressure is 4 GPa and the temperature is above 930 K.

Key words: Solid-state reaction, Crystal structure, High pressure, Fe-N alloy

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