Electromagnetism and thermostability of Cr7C3synthesised with high-temperature and high-pressure quenching method.

Abstract

The interactions between the carbon skeleton and the metal atoms of a binary transition metal carbide (BTMC) are particular interest for industrial applications with openning physics and chemitry questions, especially in magnetoelectric (ME) functional materials and cemented carbides. Chromium and carbon BTMCs are a series of intermetallic compounds with typical chemical formulas and sharepolycrystalline powder c somehromium special characteristics.and carbon as precursors, In this paper,and synthesized s we usedingle-phase bluk Cr7C3 (orthorhombic, with space group: Pnma) with high density and good crystallinity by means of high-temperature and high-pressure quenching method (HTHPQM). We studied the material properties and electronic structures of Cr7C3studied with both experimental measurements and Density Functional Theory (DFT) ab intio simulations, and found that Cr7C3 is acompaction conductor(97.2 %), with anexcellent electrical conductivitythermostability (oxidation (2.32 10×at 1175 -3K)Ω·m), relative highand a magnetic phase transition from paramagnetism to soft ferromagnetism around 50 K, and the electromagnetic propertities are chiefly due to the abundancy of the 3d electrons of Cr, and the orbital hybridization between C and Cr with their 2p and 3d electrons is the reason for the crystal sturcture and high thermostability. Therefore, the prepared Cr7C3 is multifunctional material with better application prospects, and the HPHTQM is a simple and effective mothed to prepare samples as BTMCs. .