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Insights into formation and stability of τ-MnAlZx (Z = C and B)

Fang, Hailiang ; Cedervall, Johan ; Martinez, Francisco LU ; Matej, Zdenek LU orcid ; Bednarcik, Jozef ; Ångström, Jonas ; Berastegui, Pedro and Sahlberg, Martin (2017) In Journal of Alloys and Compounds 692. p.198-203
Abstract

The τ-phase MnAl alloys are promising candidate for rare earth free permanent magnets. In this study, In order to better understand the MnAl ε→τ phase transition mechanism in a continuous cooling process and metastable MnAl τ-phase high temperature stability, Mn0.54Al0.46, Mn0.55Al0.45C0.02 and Mn0.55Al0.45B0.02 alloys were systematically studied by in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (SR-XRD). The relationship between τ-phase formation tendency and different cooling rates of Mn0.55Al0.45C0.02 was investigated. Besides, the high temperature stabilities of undoped τ-MnAl and carbon/boron doped τ-MnAl were... (More)

The τ-phase MnAl alloys are promising candidate for rare earth free permanent magnets. In this study, In order to better understand the MnAl ε→τ phase transition mechanism in a continuous cooling process and metastable MnAl τ-phase high temperature stability, Mn0.54Al0.46, Mn0.55Al0.45C0.02 and Mn0.55Al0.45B0.02 alloys were systematically studied by in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (SR-XRD). The relationship between τ-phase formation tendency and different cooling rates of Mn0.55Al0.45C0.02 was investigated. Besides, the high temperature stabilities of undoped τ-MnAl and carbon/boron doped τ-MnAl were studied. Differential thermal analysis (DTA) was also employed to study the phase transformation as well. The research results show that a high cooling rate of 600 °C/min leads to a 50/50 wt% mixture of ε- and τ-phase; almost pure τ-phase was obtained when cooled at a moderate cooling rate of 10 °C/min; while for a slow cooling rate of 2 °C/min, the τ-phase partially decomposed into β and γ2 phases. No intermediate ε’-phase was observed during the ε→τ phase transition during the experiments. For the boron and carbon doped τ-MnAl, the 800 °C high temperature stability experiments reveal that C stabilizes the τ-MnAl while doped B destabilises the tetragonal structure and it decomposes into β- and γ2-phases.

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In situ, Permanent magnet, Phase stability, Phase transition, Powder diffraction, Thermal analysis
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Journal of Alloys and Compounds
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692
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6 pages
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Elsevier
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0925-8388
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10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.09.047
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  author       = {{Fang, Hailiang and Cedervall, Johan and Martinez, Francisco and Matej, Zdenek and Bednarcik, Jozef and Ångström, Jonas and Berastegui, Pedro and Sahlberg, Martin}},
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  keywords     = {{In situ; Permanent magnet; Phase stability; Phase transition; Powder diffraction; Thermal analysis}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{01}},
  pages        = {{198--203}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Alloys and Compounds}},
  title        = {{Insights into formation and stability of τ-MnAlZ<sub>x</sub> (Z = C and B)}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.09.047}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.09.047}},
  volume       = {{692}},
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