The application provides a
tantalum material and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: S1, obtaining a carbonized
tantalum by reducing
tantalum pentoxide by using a carbon material, wherein the carbon material is selected from any one or more of
graphite and
carbon black; S2, mixing the carbonized tantalum and the
tantalum pentoxide to form a mixture, wrapping the mixture with a tantalum
metal, and then performing vacuum reduction
sintering to obtain a tantalum reduction material block; and S3, performing
electron beam melting on the tantalum reduction material block to obtain the tantalum material. In step S2, the
sintering of the carbonized tantalum and the
tantalum pentoxide is performed under the premise of being wrapped with the tantalum
metal, that is, no organic binder is introduced in the
sintering forming process, so that the carbon,
oxygen and
nitrogen caused by the sintering residue of the organic binder are effectively avoided, and the content of carbon,
oxygen and
nitrogen in the tantalum reduction material block is effectively reduced; and then the
electron beam melting is further adopted to further reduce the content of interstitial elements such as
nitrogen and
oxygen by using the characteristics of the
electron beam melting, so that the obtained tantalum material has the characteristics of low carbon, oxygen and nitrogen.