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Elizabeth E Cote1, Tracey L Nelson1, Scott D Ambos1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States.
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High-pressure synthesis is a powerful tool for the discovery of new phases, and can be used to uncover new metastable phases even within well-explored systems. The vanadium-carbon system is one of the most well-studied binary systems due to its importance in steels as well as for its many high-resilience compounds used across industry. We present in situ x-ray diffraction data collected during synthesis experiments carried out between 1.0 and 5.1 GPa in the V-C system at 25 at.% carbon, and we report the synthesis and recovery of a novel metastable body-centered tetragonal carbide, .
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