An Efficient Approach To Producing One-Hundred Percent Synthesis Of Borides

Montenegro, Brian-Marcio; Joseph, Edwin; Pawar, Sanjeet

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An Efficient Approach To Producing One-Hundred Percent Synthesis Of Borides

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Borides are versatile materials with excellent properties, including high melting points, corrosion resistance, and hardness. These properties make them ideal for specialty applications like wear-resistant coatings and non-ferrous foundry. Due to their exceptional properties, Saint-Gobain's businesses, such as abrasives and refractories, show significant interest in using borides. The primary goal of this project is to screen oxide-based electrolytes for boride synthesis with the molten oxides electrolysis (MOE) process using thermodynamic modeling. The project's secondary objective is to exhibit boride synthesis and identify boride deposition. Our focus lies on AlMgB14 and ZrB2 borides. We conducted thermodynamic simulations with manganese oxide to learn how to determine the optimum operating temperature and other essential parameters. Afterward, we translated our findings into boride synthesis for two boride compounds, aiming to synthesize them efficiently in a low-cost and low-temperature environment.

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