Pressure-induced disordering of site occupation in iron–nickel nitrides

Wu Binbin; Lei Li; Zhang Feng; Tang Qiqi; Liu Shan; Pu Meifang; He Duanwei; Xia Yuanhua; Fang Leiming; Ohfuji Hiroaki; Irifune Tetsuo

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Wu Binbin, Lei Li, Zhang Feng, Tang Qiqi, Liu Shan, Pu Meifang, He Duanwei, Xia Yuanhua, Fang Leiming, Ohfuji Hiroaki, Irifune Tetsuo. Pressure-induced disordering of site occupation in iron–nickel nitrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2021, 6(3): 038401. doi: 10.1063/5.0040041

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Wu Binbin, Lei Li, Zhang Feng, Tang Qiqi, Liu Shan, Pu Meifang, He Duanwei, Xia Yuanhua, Fang Leiming, Ohfuji Hiroaki, Irifune Tetsuo. Pressure-induced disordering of site occupation in iron–nickel nitrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2021, 6(3): 038401. doi: 10.1063/5.0040041

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Wu Binbin, Lei Li, Zhang Feng, Tang Qiqi, Liu Shan, Pu Meifang, He Duanwei, Xia Yuanhua, Fang Leiming, Ohfuji Hiroaki, Irifune Tetsuo. Pressure-induced disordering of site occupation in iron–nickel nitrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2021, 6(3): 038401. doi: 10.1063/5.0040041

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Pressure-induced disordering of site occupation in iron–nickel nitrides

doi: 10.1063/5.0040041

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Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China
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Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan

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Corresponding author: a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: lei@scu.edu.cn and flmyaya2008@163.com; a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: lei@scu.edu.cn and flmyaya2008@163.com
Received Date: 2020-12-09
Accepted Date: 2021-02-19

Available Online: 2021-05-01

Publish Date: 2021-05-15

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Controlled disordering of substitutional and interstitial site occupation at high pressure can lead to important changes in the structural and physical properties of iron–nickel nitrides. Despite important progress that has been achieved, structural characterization of ternary Fe–Ni–N compounds remains an open problem owing to the considerable technical challenges faced by current synthetic and structural approaches for fabrication of bulk ternary nitrides. Here, iron–nickel nitride samples are synthesized as spherical-like bulk materials through a novel high-pressure solid-state metathesis reaction. By employing a wide array of techniques, namely, neutron powder diffraction, Rietveld refinement methods combined with synchrotron radiation angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy, we demonstrate that high-temperature and high-pressure confinement conditions favor substitutional and interstitial site disordering in ternary iron–nickel nitrides. In addition, the effects of interstitial nitrogen atoms and disorderly substituted nickel atoms on the elastic properties of the materials are discussed.

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