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Novel Cubic Boron Nitride-Reinforced Cu/Ni Alloy Elemental Metal Matrix Composites for Electromagnetic Radiation Shielding Applications
This paper investigates a new type of metal matrix composite, namely elemental metal matrix composites (EMMC), where a matrix contains elemental metal powders joined at selective interfaces with other property...
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Effects of Preheating by Direct Electric Current on the Self-propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Ni3Al-CNT Intermetallic Nanocomposites
This paper for the first time investigates the effect of direct electric current in preheating on self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS). Ni3Al–carbon nanotube (CNT) intermetallics, were processed usin...
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Reactive processing and properties of nickel aluminide–carbon nanotube composites
This paper for the first time investigates combustion synthesis of 3Ni-Al–carbon nanotube (CNT) powder compacts simultaneously under two modes of ignition (electrically activated reaction synthesis (EARS) and ele...
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Effect of Shortening Carbon Nanotubes on Carbon Nanotube Dispersion, Damage and Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube-Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
Carbon nanotube dispersion in metallic matrices has been a challenge for many years. This paper investigates for the first time whether shortened carbon nanotubes as a starting material could promote improved ...
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Novel Ballistic Processing of Thick Films: Structural Evolution and Mechanical Behavior
Ballistic processing (BP) is a new process that promises almost instantaneous processing of thick and thin films, through the acceleration of a carrier through a molten metal stream. The mechanisms by which su...
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Novel Spark Plasma Extrusion of Titanium Above and Below the β-Transus: Effect on Microstructure and Properties
Spark plasma extrusion is a new process that has recently shown superiority over spark plasma sintering for powder consolidation. This paper represents the first investigation of novel spark plasma extrusion (...
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Novel Electro-Combustion Forging of Ni-Ti Intermetallic Nanocomposites
This paper presents a novel Electro-Combustion Forging (ECF) process, for the processing of intermetallics and their composites. The effect of forging strain on microstructure and properties for processed Ni-T...
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Review: titanium–titanium boride composites
Titanium in situ reinforced with titanium boride (TiBw) has garnered significant attention as one of the most promising titanium composites today. A significant number of processing approaches have been reported ...
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Spark Plasma Extrusion and the Thermal Barrier Concept
Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is currently a major powder consolidation process with many advantages; however, it is still largely limited to the processing of simple shapes such as discs due to its geometric r...
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Effect of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Length on the Mechanical Milling of Ni-CNT Powders and Ni-CNT/Al Reactive Synthesis
The present paper investigates the effect of carbon nanotube (CNT) length (including the use of short multi-wall CNTs) and milling parameters on the nickel matrix crystal size, dislocation density, micro-strai...
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Electrically activated reactive synthesis (EARS) and electro-annealing of 3Ni–Al powder compacts
The present study investigates the electrically activated reactive synthesis (EARS) and post-reaction electro-annealing of 3Ni–Al powder compacts. The effect of initial relative green density on EARS processin...
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Combustion synthesis and the electric field: A review
This brief review discusses principles and some latest developments in electrically activated combustion synthesis. Processes discussed include field-activated combustion synthesis (FACS), field-activated pres...
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Processing, characterization, and properties of aluminum–carbon nanotube open-cell foams
This paper discusses the processing, characterization, and properties of aluminum–carbon nanotube (Al–CNT) open-cell foams. The effect of spark plasma sintering temperature on the developed internal surface ma...
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Novel Ballistic Processing of Sn-0.7Cu Thick Films
The present paper discusses a novel process (Ballistic Processing) for the ultra-rapid processing of textured and un-textured thick and potentially thin films. The effect of processing velocity (14.6 to 36.1 m...
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Novel Aluminum (Al)-Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Open-Cell Foams
This paper presents for the first time the processing of aluminum (Al)-carbon nanotube (CNT) open-cell foams. Al-2wt pct CNT and Al foams were successfully produced using a spark plasma sintering and dissoluti...
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Long-term post-processing disintegration of aluminum–carbon nanotube composites
This paper reports on the post-processing disintegration of melt-infiltrated aluminum–carbon nanotube (Al–CNT) composites. The paper shows that un-optimized processing conditions can lead to the deterioration ...
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Effect of mechanical and electrical activation on the combustion synthesis of Al3Ti
Titanium aluminides have attracted immense interest as lightweight intermetallic compounds that possess good high-temperature mechanical and corrosion properties. In the present work, titanium aluminides (Al3Ti) ...
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Reactive Current-Activated Tip-Based Sintering of Ni–Al Intermetallics
Current-activated tip-based sintering (CATS) is a new process that imposes local current-activated sintering conditions to consolidate selected areas of a powder compact/bed through the controlled application ...
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The diversity of combustion synthesis processing: a review
The harnessing of heat emanating from powder-based exothermic reactions to produce advanced materials has been around for many decades, and is manifested in the process of combustion synthesis (CS). A plethora...
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Effects of current intensity and cumulative exposure time on the localized current-activated sintering of titanium nickelides
This article discusses the processing and properties of titanium nickelides locally sintered via Current-Activated Tip-based Sintering (CATS), a new localized sintering process. One of the advantages of CATS i...
