Author(s)

Hitomi Matsuda¹, Hitoshi Habuka^1*, Yuuki Ishida², Toshiyuki Ohno³

¹Department of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.
²National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan.
³FUPET, Tsukuba, Japan.

For developing coating materials, the fluorides of scandium, lanthanum, strontium, barium, magnesium and aluminum were produced from their oxides and chlorides by means of exposure to chlorine trifluoride gas at temperatures between room temperature and 700°C. The metal chlorides could be easily fluorinated even at room temperature, while the metal oxides required temperatures higher than 300?C. After the heating in ambient hydrogen at 1100°C, the fluorides of lanthanum and barium showed very low weight losses at 1100°C, although the weights of the other fluorides significantly decreased. These materials may work as protective films against corrosive and high temperature environments, particularly when using the chlorine trifluoride gas.

Metal Fluoride, Metal Oxide, Chlorine Trifluoride, Synthesis, Coating Film Material

Matsuda, H. , Habuka, H. , Ishida, Y. and Ohno, T. (2015) Metal Fluorides Produced Using Chlorine Trifluoride Gas. Journal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology, 5, 228-236. doi: 10.4236/jsemat.2015.54024.