Physical properties of TiMn2 and interaction with refractory TiN (system Ti-Mn-N)

Funding

The research reported herein was supported by the Austrian OEAD within the WTZ-project Austria-Czech Republic, project no. CZ-02/2015. P. Broz acknowledges the financial support of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (project 7AMB15AT002 and the project CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601)) under the National Sustainability Programme II and of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic for projects GA 14-15576S and GA17-12844S. Part of the research was also supported by the gs2:Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project P28672 - N36). The authors acknowledge the contributions to this research in its early stage by Dr. R. Krendelsberger (as part of his PhD Thesis "Investigation of Rare Earth and Transition Metal Alloys" at the Univ. of Vienna) and of D. Antoine who performed most of the experimental phase diagram work during his research stay at the University of Vienna under co-tutorial supervision by Prof. Dr. J. Bauer from URA CNRS 1495, Lab. de Chimie du Solide et Inorganique Moleculaire, University of Rennes, France. Thanks are furthermore due to Dr. M. Bohn for the expertised wavelength dispersive spectrography at the Centre de la Microsonde Electronique de l'Ouest, IFREMER, Plouzane, Brest, and to Prof. Dr. A. Perrin, Chemie du Solide et Inorganique Moleculaire, University of Rennes, for the energy dispersive spectroscopy in a TEM.