Authors: Nadina Gheorghiu, Charles R. Ebbing, Timothy J. Haugan
In this paper, we present results on magnetization properties of boron nitride-carbon (BN-C) and boron carbide-carbon (B4C-C) granular mixtures. The temperature-dependent magnetization for field-cooled during cooling and field-cooled during warming shows a kind of thermal hysteresis that is always seen around a metamagnetic phase transition from an antiferromagnetic martensite to a ferromagnetic austenite phase. The low-temperature magnetization has an upward turn that can be attributed to superparamagnetism, diamagnetic shielding, and trapped flux characteristic to high-temperature superconducting materials. After subtracting the diamagnetic background, the field-dependent magnetization loops M(B) are ferromagnetic-like, more significant for the BN-C than for the B4C-C mixture. In addition, the magnetization loops show the kink feature characteristic to granular superconductivity. The irreversibility temperature for a B4C-C mixture having 37.5 wt% B is Tc 76 K. Combining our data with previous results on B-doped diamond and Q-carbon, we find that Tc increases linearly with the B concentration.
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