Propriedades estruturais e magneticas de compostos TR2Fe17Nx

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1993

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The samples of TR2Fe17 intermetallic compounds with intersticial nitrogen were analyzed by several experimental techniques. We used optical metallographic and ac thermomagnetic analyses, electron probe micro-analysis (EPMA), X-ray diffract on and Mossbauer effect for samples characterization. Diffusion of nitrogen was studied for several light rare-earth-iron 2:17 compounds. AlI experimental techniques showed that the nitrided phase is present in the sample even when the nominal concentration is much smaller than the saturation value: the nitrided phase precipitates directly from the 2:17 phase. Diffusion patterns were extensively analyzed in several samples with different nitrogen contents for several absorption temperatures. At 400 °C all compounds showed a very different behaviour than that predict by Fick s law, in which a layer of nitrided phase is formed at the outer region of particle and whose thickness grows as the absorption time increases. We observed, for this temperature, that nitrogen transport is made almost entirely through grain boundaries, phase boundaries and by extended defects. Large strips of the nitrided phase are formed along the sample through these channels. At 500 °C and 600 °C, we noted changes in the diffusion patterns, due to two competitive mechanism s acting simultaneously at these temperatures. We can observe an increasing outer layer, corresponding to the expected shell-core model, and at the same time, diffusion channels through the bulk of the particle. The interface between the two phases, nitrided and pure 2:17, looks like a step function, according to our results obtained from EPMA. The absorption of N2 by the compound induces a stress field, responsible for the broadening in the magnetic transition of the pure phase. The magnetic transition, from a certain stage of mechanical deformation, becomes completely degenerated and ol1e can hardly define a transition temperature. The PCT diagram for the N2-Nd2Fe17 system doesn t show a plateau at 500 °C, over the pressure range from 10-2 up to 70 bar. The reversibility of the reaction doesn t occur, showing that the nitrided phase is highly stable. The homogenization of the nitrided phase inside the particles, doesn t occur in performing a heat treatment at 500 °C, for 24h , under argon atmosphere

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nitrogenio - propriedades magneticas compostos intermetalicos

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