High-hardness TaN compacts with a diameter and height of 6 mm were synthesized through the phase transformation of CoSn-type into WC-type TaN under experimental conditions of high temperature and high pressure . The Vickers hardness of WC-type TaN compacts obtained at the pressure of 5 GPa and the temperature of 1873 K is found to be ~21.5 ± 1.5 GPa with a load of 3 Kg, which is comparable to that of the pure tungsten carbide compact (~20 GPa) and higher than those of ultrahigh temperature ceramics ZrB 2 and HfB 2 under the same load. The high hardness of WC-type TaN compacts presented in this work is attributed to the deviatoric strain and well-bonded nanograins . The synthesized WC-type TaN compacts also possess a high oxidation temperature (1072 K). These results suggest that the WC-type TaN with high hardness and high thermal stability holds great promise for industrial applications.
The Vickers hardness of the bulk TaB and nano-TaC ceramics sintered at high pressure and high temperature were measured by using a diamond indentation method. Our tests gave a maximum Vickers hardness of 13.9 GPa for TaB, and 19.2 GPa for nano-TaC ceramics under a load of 29.4 N. The hardness of nano-TaC-5 wt% Co composites was also measured under the same load for comparison, which was found to be much lower than that of TaB and nano-TaC. The relative densities calculated by the Archimedes method are 13.5 g/cm 3 for TaB and 13.6 g/cm 3 for nano-TaC. The averaged fracture toughness is 6.8 ± 0.3 MPa m 1/2 for TaB and 5.0 ± 0.2 MPa m 1/2 for nano-TaC. Our results show that the hardness of the TaB may not be as high as previous reports.
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