Material Description of TiB2
Nearly fully dense polycrystalline TiB2 can be produced by various processing methods, including sintering, hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing, microwave sintering, and dynamic compaction. However, the relatively strong covalent bonding of the constituents results in low self-diffusion rates. Consequently, given also a high melting point of (3225±20) °C, pressureless sintering of TiB2 requires a relatively high sintering temperature, on the order of 2000 °C. Unfortunately, grain growth is also