Chromium(III) boride, also known as chromium monoboride (CrB), is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CrB.[2] It is one of the six stable binary borides of chromium, which also include Cr2B, Cr5B3, Cr3B4, CrB2, and CrB4.[3] Like many other transition metal borides, it is extremely hard (21-23 GPa),[4][5] has high strength (690 MPa bending strength),[5] conducts heat and electricity as well as many metallic alloys,[4][6][7] and has a high melting point (~2100 °C).[8][3] Unlike pure chromium, CrB is known to be a paramagnetic, with a magnetic susceptibility that is only weakly dependent on temperature.[9][10] Due to these properties, among others, CrB has been considered as a candidate material for wear resistant coatings and high-temperature diffusion barriers.[citation needed]
It can be synthesized as powders by many methods including direct reaction of the constituent elemental powders,[11]self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS),[5] borothermic reduction,[12][13] and molten salt growth.[14] Slow-cooling of molten aluminum solutions from high-temperatures has been used to grow large single crystals, with a maximum size of 0.6 mm x 0.6 mm x 8.3 mm.[4]
CrB has an orthorhombic crystal structure (space groupCmcm) that was first discovered in 1951,[15] and subsequently confirmed by later work using single crystals.[16] The crystal structure can be visualized as slabs face-sharing BCr6 trigonal prisms, in the ac-plane, that are stacked parallel to the <010> crystallographic direction. Similar to Cr3B4 and Cr2B3, the B atoms in the structure form covalent bonds with each other and are characterized by unidirectional B-B- chains parallel to the <001> crystallographic direction. The transition metal monoborides VB, NbB, TaB, and NiB have the same crystal structure. [citation needed]
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↑ 4.04.14.2Okada, Shigeru; Kudou, Kunio; Iizumi, Kiyokata; Kudaka, Katsuya; Higashi, Iwami; Lundström, Torsten (September 1996). "Single-crystal growth and properties of CrB, Cr3B4, Cr2B3 and CrB2 from high-temperature aluminum solutions". Journal of Crystal Growth166 (1–4): 429–435. doi:10.1016/0022-0248(95)00890-X. Bibcode: 1996JCrGr.166..429O.
↑ 5.05.15.2Hiroki, Yuji; Yoshinaka, Masaru; Hirota, Ken; Yamaguchi, Osamu (2003). "Hot Isostatic Pressing of CrB Prepared by Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis". Journal of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy50 (5): 367–371. doi:10.2497/jjspm.50.367. ISSN0532-8799.
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↑Kota, Sankalp; Wang, Wenzhen; Lu, Jun; Natu, Varun; Opagiste, Christine; Ying, Guobing; Hultman, Lars; May, Steven J. et al. (October 2018). "Magnetic properties of Cr2AlB2, Cr3AlB4, and CrB powders". Journal of Alloys and Compounds767: 474–482. doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.07.031.
↑Iizumi, Kiyokata; Kudaka, Katsuya; Okada, Shigeru (1998). "Synthesis of Chromium Borides by Solid-State Reaction between Chromium Oxide (III) and Amorphous Boron Powders". Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan106 (1237): 931–934. doi:10.2109/jcersj.106.931. ISSN1882-1022.
↑Cao, Weixiao; Wei, Ya'nan; Meng, Xin; Ji, Yuexia; Ran, Songlin (2017-04-13). "A general method towards transition metal monoboride nanopowders". International Journal of Materials Research108 (4): 335–338. doi:10.3139/146.111484. ISSN1862-5282.