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Extremely hard and tough high entropy nitride ceramics
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Extremely hard and tough high entropy nitride ceramics

Dmitry Moskovskikh, Stepan Vorotilo, Veronika Buinevich, Alexey Sedegov, Kirill Kuskov, Alexander Khort, Christopher Shuck, Maksim Zhukovskyi and Alexander Mukasyan
Scientific reports, v 10(1), pp 19874-19874
16 Nov 2020
PMID: 33199795
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76945-yView
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Abstract

Ceramics Mechanical properties
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 (Hf 0.2 Nb 0.2 Ta 0.2 Ti 0.2 Zr 0.2 )N demonstrates outstanding hardness (up to 33 GPa) and fracture toughness (up to 5.2 MPa∙m 1/2 ), 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.

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