Publication Date
12-31-2019
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
Campus Units
Ames Laboratory, Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1595767
Report Number
IS-J 10141
DOI
10.1111/jace.16983
Journal Title
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Abstract
Establishing the formation criterion is urgent for accelerating the discovery and design of solid-solution materials with desirable properties. The previously reported formation criterion mainly focused on solid-solution alloys, while the formation criterion was rarely established in solid-solution ceramics. To solve this problem, herein, we take a class of solid-solution ceramics, namely binary metal diboride ((MxN1-x)B-2) solid solutions, as a prototype. Through combinatorial methods including high-throughput molten salt syntheses and high-throughput first-principles calculations combined with the machine learning approach, the correlation between influential factors, including atomic size difference (delta), mixing enthalpy at 0 K and 0 Pa (Delta Hmix0K), doping condition (phi), and valence electron concentration (VEC), and the formation ability of (MxN1-x)B-2 solid solutions was first studied systematically, and then their formation criterion was well established. The results showed that the influential degree of the aforementioned four factors on the formation ability of (MxN1-x)B-2 solid solutions could be described as follows: delta > Delta Hmix0K> phi > VEC. In addition, a newly proposed parameter, beta, could well reflect the formation ability of (MxN1-x)B-2 solid solutions: when beta > 0, the single-phase (MxN1-x)B-2 solid solutions could be successfully synthesized in our work and vice versa. This study may provide a theoretical guidance in the discovery and design of various solid-solution ceramics, such as the metal borides, carbides, nitrides, etc, with desirable properties.
DOE Contract Number(s)
AC02-07CH11358
Language
en
Department of Energy Subject Categories
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
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