Process for preparing titanium nitride powder

Patent · Fri Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6183288

Bamberger, C. E.

A process for making titanium nitride powder by reaction of titanium phosphates with sodium cyanide. The process of this invention may comprise mixing one or more phosphates of Ti with a cyanide salt in the absence of oxygen and heating to a temperature sufficient to cause reaction to occur. In the preferred embodiment the ratio of cyanide salt to Ti should be at least 2 which results in the major Ti-containing product being TiN rather than sodium titanium phosphate byproducts. The process is an improvement over prior processes since the byproducts are water soluble salts of sodium which can easily be removed from the preferred TiN product by washing. 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): PATENTS-US-A7207806
• Application Number: ON: DE89010801
• OSTI ID: 6183288
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360201* -- Ceramics
Cermets
& Refractories-- Preparation & Fabrication
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
BORON COMPOUNDS
BORON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CLEANING
CYANIDES
INVENTIONS
NITRIDES
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHATES
PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PNICTIDES
SODIUM COMPOUNDS
SOLUBILITY
SYNTHESIS
TITANIUM COMPOUNDS
TITANIUM NITRIDES
TITANIUM PHOSPHATES
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
WASHING