Tantalum carbide: golden superconducting metal, opening a new chapter for modern industrial production
Tantalum carbides (TaC) are a family of binary compounds of tantalum and carbon with the empirical formula TaCx, where x generally ranges between 0.4 and 1. They are very difficult, breakable, refractory ceramic materials with metallic conductivity. They appear as a brownish-grey powder and are usually processed by sintering. As an important cermet material, tantalum…