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Structural Chemistry of Some Phases in The YC-Ni-B System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

B. C. Chakoumakos
B. C. Chakoumakos*
Affiliation:
Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6393
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Abstract

NiB, monoclinic Ni4B3, Ni2B and Ni3B were prepared by arc-melting and their roomtemperature crystal structures were refined by Rietveld analysis of neutron powder diffraction data. The NiB refinement is altogether new data. Although the B atoms in NiB form characteristic zigzag chains, the primary coordination of each atom by atoms of the other kind is similar and distinctively sevenfold, with one short (2.117 Å), two intermediate (2.152 Å), and four long (2.163 Å) bonds. Other samples with stoichiometries (YC)nNi2B2, n = 3, 4, did not yield single-phase material, but both x-ray and neutron powder diffraction suggest that the n = 4 structure is present in both of these samples. Phase-pure samples of these homologues may require non-stoichiometry and a more controlled thermal history than is attainable by arc melting.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 376: Symposium BB – Neutron Scattering in Materials Science , 1994 , 547
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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