title: Monitoring the carburization of molybdenum bimetallic nitrides and oxynitrides with CH4/H2/Ar mixtures: identification of a new carbonitride.
abstract: A new carbonitride Ni2Mo3(CxNy) has been synthesized by temperature-programmed carburization of the Ni2Mo3N precursor with a CH4/H2/Ar gas mixture at 923 K. This compound has been characterized by X-ray diffraction, elemental analysis, Auger electron spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and field-emission scanning electron microscopy. Ni2Mo3(CxNy) crystallizes in the cubic space group P4(1)32, with a lattice parameter of a=6.64575(3) A, corresponding to the unusual filled beta-Mn structure. Its formation occurs by partial substitution of N by C via a topotactic and pseudomorphic reaction and its stability in air is higher that of Ni2Mo3N. A two-phase mixture with a cubic structure has always been obtained by the same synthetic method applied to the V2Mo(OxNy) precursor. One of these would be of carbidic nature formed at 1153 K following a reaction similar to that proposed for Ni2Mo3(CxNy).
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santiago del Estero 2829, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina. salco@fiq.unl.edu.ar
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alconchel
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pierini
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sapiña
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martínez