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Sequence of phase transformations in the formation of superstructures of the M6C5 type in nonstoichiometric carbides

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A symmetry analysis has been made of monoclinic and trigonal superstructures of the M6C5 type, which are formed in nonstoichiometric cubic carbides MC y with a B1 structure. Channels of disorder-order transitions MC y → M6C5 have been revealed, and the distribution functions of carbon atoms in the M6C5 superstructures have been calculated. The atomic-vacancy ordering in nonstoichiometric cubic carbides of vanadium VC y and niobium NbC y has been investigated using neutron diffraction and X-ray diffraction analyses. It has been shown that, as the temperature decreases, the Group V transition metal carbides MC y can undergo two physically admissible sequences of transformations associated with the formation of M6C5 phases.

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Gusev, 2009, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 136, No. 3, pp. 486–504.

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Gusev, A.I. Sequence of phase transformations in the formation of superstructures of the M6C5 type in nonstoichiometric carbides. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 109, 417–433 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776109090064

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