Phase Equilibria and Magnetic Phases in the Ce-Fe-Co-B System
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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
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Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Masdar Institute, Masdar City P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Academic Editor: Sofoklis Makridis
Materials 2017, 10(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10010016
Received: 3 November 2016
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Revised: 2 December 2016
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Accepted: 20 December 2016
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Published: 28 December 2016
Ce-Fe-Co-B is a promising system for permanent magnets. A high-throughput screening method combining diffusion couples, key alloys, Scanning Electron Microscope/Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Spectroscope (SEM/WDS), and Magnetic Force Microscope (MFM) is used in this research to understand the phase equilibria and to explore promising magnetic phases in this system. Three magnetic phases were detected and their homogeneity ranges were determined at 900 °C, which were presented by the formulae: Ce2Fe14−xCoxB (0 ≤ x ≤ 4.76), CeCo4−xFexB (0 ≤ x ≤ 3.18), and Ce3Co11−x FexB4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 6.66). The phase relations among the magnetic phases in this system have been studied. Ce2(Fe, Co)14B appears to have stronger magnetization than Ce(Co, Fe)4B and Ce3(Co, Fe)11B4 from MFM analysis when comparing the magnetic interactions of selected key alloys. Also, a non-magnetic CeCo12−xFexB6 (0 ≤ x ≤ 8.74) phase was detected in this system. A boron-rich solid solution with Ce13FexCoyB45 (32 ≤ x ≤ 39, 3 ≤ y ≤ 10) chemical composition was also observed. However, the crystal structure of this phase could not be found in the literature. Moreover, ternary solid solutions ε1 (Ce2Fe17−xCox (0 ≤ x ≤ 12.35)) and ε2 (Ce2Co17−xFex (0 ≤ x ≤ 3.57)) were found to form between Ce2Fe17 and Ce2Co17 in the Ce-Fe-Co ternary system at 900 °C.
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Keywords:
phase equilibria; Ce-Fe-Co-B quaternary system; magnetic phases; MFM; SEM/WDS
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Wang T, Kevorkov D, Medraj M. Phase Equilibria and Magnetic Phases in the Ce-Fe-Co-B System. Materials. 2017; 10(1):16. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10010016
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