Polycrystalline cubic boron nitride prepared with cubic-hexagonal boron nitride under high pressure and high temperature

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/5/056105

Abstract Polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PcBN) compacts, using the mixture of submicron cubic boron nitride (cBN) powder and hexagonal BN (hBN) powder as starting materials, were sintered at pressures of 6.5-10.0 GPa and temperature of 1750℃ without additives. In this paper, the sintering behavior and mechanical properties of samples were investigated. The XRD patterns of samples reveal that single cubic phase was observed when the sintering pressure exceeded 7.5 GPa and hBN contents ranged from 20 vol.% to 24 vol.%, which is ascribed to like-internal pressure generated at grain-to-grain contact under high pressure. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis shows that after high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) treatments, the submicron cBN grains abounded with high-density nanotwins and stacking faults, and this contributed to the outstanding mechanical properties of PcBN. The pure bulk PcBN that was obtained at 7.7 GPa/1750℃ possessed the outstanding properties, including a high Vickers hardness (~61.5 GPa), thermal stability (~1290℃ in air), and high density (~3.46 g/cm³).

Keywords: PcBN compact high temperature and high pressure sintering PcBN without additive

Received: 27 November 2017
Revised: 10 February 2018
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PACS:	61.50.Ks	(Crystallographic aspects of phase transformations; pressure effects)
	61.72.Ff	(Direct observation of dislocations and other defects (etch pits, decoration, electron microscopy, x-ray topography, etc.))
	81.20.Ev	(Powder processing: powder metallurgy, compaction, sintering, mechanical alloying, and granulation)

Corresponding Authors: Zi-Li Kou
E-mail: kouzili@scu.edu.cn

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Ming Yang(杨鸣), Zi-Li Kou(寇自力), Teng Liu(刘腾), Jing-Rui Lu(卢景瑞), Fang-Ming Liu(刘方明), Yin-Juan Liu(刘银娟), Lei Qi(戚磊), Wei Ding(丁未), Hong-Xia Gong(龚红霞), Xiao-Lin Ni(倪小林), Duan-Wei He(贺端威) Polycrystalline cubic boron nitride prepared with cubic-hexagonal boron nitride under high pressure and high temperature 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 056105

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