Molybdenum - Nickel - Zirconium

Yafei Pan, Yong Du, Shimin Wang

Introduction

Each element of the Mo-Ni-Zr ternary system is the main component of a wide range of alloys, such as cemented carbides, Ti(C,N)-based cermets, and metallic glass. The addition of Mo or Mo₂C into cermets can improve the wettability between ceramic phase and binder phase, and cermets with finer microstructure and better mechanical properties than the traditional WC-Co cemented carbide can be obtained [2008Li]. The addition of Zr into cermets can improve its toughness and thermal shock resistance [2013Zha], while Ni is an important binder metal of Ti(C,N)-based cermets. In addition, the Ni-Zr binary system has been widely investigated as an important metallic glass system. Recently, [2015Yan...