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As an important Ti-B component, Ti3B4 has been widely used in industry and military applications. However, its deformation behaviors are not clear, which greatly limits its applications. First-principles methods based on density function theory were employed to investigate the mechanical, electronic properties and deformation mechanisms of Ti3B4 under uniaxial compressions along different axis. The results show that the structure underwent a massive change under different axial compressions. Strong anisotropic of deformation behaviors in Ti3B4 was observed. The compressive strength along b-axis is the highest in Ti3B4 structure. Under a-axis compression, the interaction between intralayer Ti—Ti bonds becomes weaker as the compressive strain increases, causing the partly damage of Ti3B4. However, in this process, the structure is not destroyed and can sustain the stress continuously. After that, the interlayer Ti—Ti bonds and the intralyer B—B bonds which are along b-axis, are broken and then it causes the sudden drop in stress, implying that the Ti3B4 structure is fully destroyed. Under b-axis compression, the changes of Ti—B bonds in Ti3B4 structure lead to the decrease of stress. Similarly, the structure can sustain the stress continuously in the process. Then, the B—B bonds which are along b-axis are broken, resulting in the sudden drop in stress. Under c-axis compression, the formation of interlayer Ti—B bonds and the breakage of intralayer Ti—B bonds result in structural instability of Ti3B4. Meanwhile, the deformed Ti3B4 still exhibits a metallic feature in the crystalline state after uniaxial compressions. However, there is no noticeable pseudogap in DOS spectra for a-axis and b-axis compressions. While for c-axis compression, there still exists a pseudogap around the Fermi energy, but it moves to the lower energy. And the pseudogap becomes narrower than that of the initial structure, which means that the covalent properties of Ti3B4 are reduced after deformations. The present work provides necessary insights in understanding the mechanical behaviors and deformation mechanisms of Ti3B4, which is the basis for improving the mechanical performance of Ti3B4 at macroscale.
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Keywords:
- Ti3B4 /
- First-principles methods /
- mechanical properties /
- deformation mechanisms
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表 1 峰值A和谷值B处的Ti原子和B原子的PDOS和Ti3B4的TDOS (states/eV)
Table 1. The PDOS of a Ti and a B atom and TDOS of Ti3B4 at Peak A and Bottom B (states/eV).
D(Ti-s) D(Ti-3p) D(Ti-3d) D(B-2s) D(B-2p) D(Total) 峰值A 0.0137 0.0959 0.5610 0.0308 0.527 13.0945 谷值B 0.0001 0.0007 0.1996 0.0010 0.019 2.2669 -
[1] Li P F, Zhou R L, Zeng X C 2015 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7 15607Google Scholar
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[3] 黎军军, 赵学坪, 陶强, 黄晓庆, 朱品文, 崔田, 王欣 2013 62 026202Google Scholar
Li J J, Zhao X P, Tao Q, Huang X Q, Zhu P W, Cui T, Wang X 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 026202Google Scholar
[4] Murray J L, Liao P K, Spear K E 1986 Bull. Alloy Phase Diagrams 7 550Google Scholar
[5] Spear K E, Mcdowell P, Mcmahon F 1986 J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 69 C-4Google Scholar
[6] Huang F, Fu Z Y, Yan A H, Wang W M, Wang H, Zhang J Y, Zhang Q J 2010 Powder Technol. 197 83Google Scholar
[7] Panda K B, Ravi Chandran K S 2006 Comput. Mater. Sci. 35 134Google Scholar
[8] Ma X Y, Li C R, Du Z M, Zhang W J 2004 J. Alloys Compd. 370 149Google Scholar
[9] Yan H Y, Wei Q, Chang S M, Guo P 2011 Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China (English Ed.) 21 1627Google Scholar
[10] Tian J Z, Zhao Y H, Wang B, Hou H, Zhang Y M 2018 Mater. Chem. Phys. 209 200Google Scholar
[11] Sun L, Gao Y M, Xiao B, Li Y F, Wang G L 2013 J. Alloys Compd. 579 457Google Scholar
[12] Zhang X H, Luo X G, Li J P, Hu P, Han J C 2010 Scr. Mater. 62 625Google Scholar
[13] Cheng T B, Li W G 2015 J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 98 190Google Scholar
[14] Sun M, Wang C Y, Liu J P 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 077103Google Scholar
[15] Arpita Aparajita A N, Sanjay Kumar N R, Chandra Shekar N V, Kalavathi S 2017 Mater. Res. Express 4 096508Google Scholar
[16] Tian D C, Wang X B 1992 J. Phys. Condens. Matter 4 8765Google Scholar
[17] Mouffok B, Feraoun H, Aourag H 2006 Mater. Lett. 60 1433Google Scholar
[18] Vajeeston P, Ravindran P, Ravi C, Asokamani R 2001 Phys. Rev. B 63 045115Google Scholar
[19] Wang C L, Yu B H, Huo H L, Chen D, Sun H B 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 1248Google Scholar
[20] Peng F, Fu H Z, Cheng X L 2007 Phys. B Condens. Matter 400 83Google Scholar
[21] Xiang H M, Feng Z H, Li Z P, Zhou Y C 2015 J. Appl. Phys. 117 225902Google Scholar
[22] Wang M L 2014 Phys. Scr. 89 115702Google Scholar
[23] Lu J Q, Qin J N, Chen Y F, Zhang Z W, Lu W J, Zhang D 2010 J. Alloys Compd. 490 118Google Scholar
[24] Zhang R, Wang D J, Yuan S J 2017 Mater. Des. 134 250Google Scholar
[25] Chen D, Chen Z, Wu Y, Wang M L, Ma N H, Wang H W 2014 Intermetallics 52 64Google Scholar
[26] Panda K B, Ravi Chandran K S 2006 Acta Mater. 54 1641Google Scholar
[27] Rou S, Ravi Chandran K S 2018 J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 101 4308Google Scholar
[28] Wang G L, Li Y F, Gao Y M, Cheng Y H, Ma S Q 2015 Comput. Mater. Sci. 104 29Google Scholar
[29] Li J, Liu L S, Xu S, Zhang J Y and She W C 2019 J. Appl. Phys. A 125 222Google Scholar
[30] 房玉真, 孔祥晋, 王东亭, 崔守鑫, 刘军海 2018 67 117101Google Scholar
Fang Y Z, Kong X J, Wang D T, Cui S X, Liu J H 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 117101Google Scholar
[31] 丁超, 李卫, 刘菊燕, 王琳琳, 蔡云, 潘沛锋 2018 67 213102Google Scholar
Ding C, Li W, Liu J Y, Wang L L, Cai Y, Pan P F 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 213102Google Scholar
[32] 刘琪, 管鹏飞 2018 67 178101Google Scholar
Liu Q, Guan P F 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 178101Google Scholar
[33] He X, Li J B 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 037301Google Scholar
[34] 吕常伟, 王臣菊, 顾建兵 2019 68 077102Google Scholar
Lv C W, Wang C J, Gu J P 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 077102Google Scholar
[35] Lu B K, Wang C Y 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 077104Google Scholar
[36] Kresse G 1999 Phys. Rev. B 59 1758Google Scholar
[37] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Comput. Mater. Sci. 6 15Google Scholar
[38] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169Google Scholar
[39] Becke A D, Edgecombe K E 1990 J. Chem. Phys. 92 5397Google Scholar
[40] Momma K, Izumi F 2011 J. Appl. Crystallogr. (International Union Crystallogr.-IUCr) 44 1272Google Scholar
[41] Segall M, Shah R, Pickard C 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 16317Google Scholar
[42] Gull E, Parcollet O, Millis A J 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 216405Google Scholar
[43] 王欣, 王发展, 雷哲锋, 王博, 马姗, 王哲, 吴振 2013 62 123101Google Scholar
Wang X, Wang F Z, Lei Z F, Wang B, Ma S, Wang Z, Wu Z 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 123101Google Scholar
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