Preparation of special-purity scandium for designing plastic and breakable materials based on the metal

Abstract

Abstract The development of advanced technologies is related to the preparation and application of rare-earth metals. The tendency of development of rare-earth metal (REM) industry in Russia consists in tending to shed its dependence on the importation of REMs, to organize their production and products based on them in the required quantities, and to find new application fields for REMs. The aim of the present study is to elaborate the purification technologies of scandium and scandium hydride and to approbate its application as breakable additions to powder mixtures for the preparation of Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets. It is demonstrated the possibility to control the grains size of the 2-14-1 phase in Nd-Fe-B with the ScH∼2 addition. Moreover, our systematic studies are aimed at the development of corrosion-resistant Ag-free Pd-based REM-containing alloys with the high hydrogen permeability for the separation of high-purity hydrogen from hydrogen-containing mixtures. In the present study, the hydrogen permeability and mechanical properties of Pd-Sc thin foils prepared with special-purity scandium are discussed