A review on relationship between morphology of boride of Fe-B alloys and the wear/corrosion resistant properties and mechanisms

Abstract Fe-B alloys have attracted much attention as a new kind of wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials. It is interesting that the boride morphology of Fe-B alloys determines their superior wear resistant or corrosion resistant property. The review of Fe-B alloys’ research and development status claims more attention to controlling boride morphology that is net-like, broken and oriented to design wear resistant or corrosion resistant alloy. Besides, this review focuses on the relationship between boride morphology and wear/corrosion resistant properties and mechanisms.