Synthesis of Monodispersed Fine Hafnium Diboride Powders Using Carbo/Borothermal Reduction of Hafnium Dioxide |
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| Authors: | De-Wei Ni Guo-Jun Zhang Yan-Mei Kan Pei-Ling Wang |
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| Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 200050, China;
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 200049, China |
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| Abstract: | Fine hafnium diboride (HfB2) powders have been prepared by modified carbothermal/borothermal reduction of hafnium dioxide (HfO2) at relatively low temperatures (1500°–1600°C) for 1–2 h. The XRD patterns could be indexed as hexagonal HfB2 and no evidence of HfC, HfO2, or other impurities was observed. Glow discharge mass spectrometer analysis indicates that the synthesized HfB2 powders had high purity. The synthesized HfB2 powders had small average crystallite size (around 1 μm) and low oxygen content (<0.30 wt%). Scanning electron microscopy observation of the as-prepared powders demonstrated quasi-column morphology and laser particle size analysis showed monodispersity (polydispersity 0.005). |
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