EurekAlert September 4, 2020
An international team of researchers (Russia, Armenia) has predicted new hard and superhard ternary compounds in the tungsten-molybdenum-boron system using computational methods. Mixing tungsten and molybdenum atoms produced compounds that were disordered and, therefore, had varying stability depending on temperature. They predicted five new stable ternary compounds with various chemical compositions at different temperatures and calculated the composition–temperature phase diagrams. Electronic properties of the new compounds were studied in detail to find their correlation with the mechanical properties, crystal structure, and atomic composition…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Abstract. Credit: Chem. Mater. 2020, 32, 16, 7028–7035, July 17, 2020