Electronic mechanism of hardness enhancement in transition-metal carbonitrides

SH Jhi, J Ihm, SG Louie, ML Cohen - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Transition-metal carbides and nitrides are hard materials widely used for cutting tools and
wear-resistant coatings. Their hardness is not yet understood at a fundamental level. A clue …

Valence electron concentration as an indicator for mechanical properties in rocksalt structure nitrides, carbides and carbonitrides

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Dependence of elastic stiffness on electronic band structure of nanolaminate (, and ) ceramics

J Wang, Y Zhou - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2004 - APS
We investigate the elastic stiffness and electronic band structure of nanolaminate M 2 AlC
(M= Ti, V, Nb, and Cr) ceramics by using the ab initio pseudopotential total energy method …

Vacancy hardening and softening in transition metal carbides and nitrides

SH Jhi, SG Louie, ML Cohen, J Ihm - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
The effects of vacancies on mechanical properties of the transition metal carbides and
nitrides are studied using the ab initio pseudopotential approach. Calculated shear elastic …

Energetics of point defects in rocksalt structure transition metal nitrides: Thermodynamic reasons for deviations from stoichiometry

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First principle calculations of point defect formation energies in group 3–6 transition metal
(Me) nitrides MeN x are employed to explain the thermodynamic reasons for the large …

Bonding and classification of nanolayered ternary carbides

Z Sun, D Music, R Ahuja, S Li, JM Schneider - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2004 - APS
We have investigated the elastic properties of nanolayered M 2 AC, with M= Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb,
Ta, Cr, Mo, W and A= Al, Ga, Ge, Sn, by ab initio calculations. We suggest that M 2 AC can …

Core electron count as a versatile and accurate new descriptor for sorting mechanical properties of diverse transition metal compounds

R Zhang, X Gu, K Zhang, X Gao, C Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition‐metal light‐element compounds show superb mechanical, chemical, and thermal
properties, and accurate descriptors are important to sorting targeted properties among this …

Mixing and decomposition thermodynamics of from first-principles calculations

B Alling, AV Ruban, A Karimi, OE Peil, SI Simak… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We describe an efficient first-principles method that can be used to calculate mixing
enthalpies of transition metal nitrides with B 1 structure and substitutional disorder at the …

Sorting transition-metal diborides: New descriptor for mechanical properties

X Gu, C Liu, H Guo, K Zhang, C Chen - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
An enduring quest in materials research is to reconcile two of the most prominent yet often
conflicting mechanical properties, hardness and toughness. Strong covalent solids like …

Local-distortion-informed exceptional multicomponent transition-metal carbides uncovered by machine learning

J Zhang, L He, Y ** high-performance multicomponent ceramics, which are promising in solving
challenges posed by emerging technologies, shows grand difficulties because of the …