Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Formation Mechanism of TaC by Tantalum-contained Resin Precursor

LI Jiang-Hong, ZHANG Hong-Bo, XIONG Xiang, XIAO Peng, ZHAO Lei, HUANG Bai-Yun   

  1. The State Key Laboratory for Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
  • Received:2006-09-25 Revised:2006-11-21 Published:2007-09-20 Online:2007-09-20

Abstract: C/C-TaC composites prepared by liquid precursors are promising in improving the ablation properties of C/C composites. The formation mechanism of TaC by tantalum-contained resin precursor was investigated through the analysis of components and morphologies of tantalum-contained resin after different heat treatment by XRD and SEM together with the DSC-TG results of tantalum-contained solution. The results show that tantalum-contained solution promotes the solidification of resin. Treated at 100℃, TaF5 will hydrolyze into TaO2F and the resin will solidify. Treated at 800℃ in vacuum atmosphere, part of TaO2F in tantalum-contained resin will decompose into Ta2O5 solid and TaF5 gas. Then, Ta2O5 will be reduced and compounded by carbon into TaC with fine sizes at 1000℃. The lossof tantalum can be controlled by prolonging treatment time at lower temperatures (room temperature --100℃) and introducing anhydrous ammonia into the solution.

Key words: tantalum-contained resin, TaC, formation mechanism

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