Borides thermodynamic properties

Considering other families of similar compounds, the contributions given by Guillermet and Frisk (1992), Guillermet and Grimvall (1991) (cohesive and thermodynamic properties, atomic average volumes, etc. of nitrides, borides, etc. of transition metals) are other examples of systematic descriptions of selected groups of phases and of the use of special interpolation and extrapolation procedures to predict specific properties. 

Some of the thermodynamic properties for a few diborides, including HfB2 and ZrB2 are listed in Tables 3 and 4. The data in these Tables are from Pankratz et al, who reviewed available data in the early 80 s and included only the data they deemed to be reliable. Enthalpies of formation are strongly correlated with Gibbs free energies of formation for borides, because the entropy terms are small. This also means that the free energy is relatively insensitive to temperature. ... 

Gerasimov et have provided a reference book on the thermodynamic properties of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium, niobium, and tantalum, and their more important compounds, viz. oxides, sulphides, halides, carbides, nitrides, silicates, borides, and hydrides. 

In 1963 Dr. Danbk joined the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, of which he was the director in the period 1991-1995. His main field of interest was the physical chemistry of molten salts systems in particular the study of the relations between the composition, properties, and structure of inorganic melts. He developed a method to measure the electrical conductivity of molten fluorides. He proposed the thermodynamic model of silicate melts and applied it to a number of two- and three-component silicate systems. He also developed the dissociation model of molten salts mixtures and applied it to different types of inorganic systems. More recently his work was in the field of chemical synthesis of double oxides from fused salts and the investigation of the physicochemical properties of molten systems of interest as electrolytes for the electrochemical deposition of metals from natural minerals, molybdenum, the synthesis of transition metal borides, and for aluminium production. 

---