ZnS-SiO_2 composite is normally used for sputtering target. In recent years, high sputtering power for higher deposition rate often causes crack formation of the target. Therefore the target material is required that the sintered target material should have high crack resistance, excellent strength and a homogeneous microstructure with high sintered density. In this study, raw ZnS and ZnS-SiO_2 powders prepared by a 3-D mixer or high energy ball-milling were successfully densified by spark plasma sintering, the effective densification method of hard-to-sinter materials in a short time. After sintering, the fracture toughness was measured by the indentation fracture (IF) method. Due to the effect of crack deflection by the residual stress occurred by the second phase of fine SiO_2, the hardness and fracture toughness reached to 3.031 GPa and 1.014MPacdotm1/2, respectively.
[ YBa_2Cu_3O_7-y ](123) powders were synthesized by the solid state reaction method using two different purity BaCO_3 powders (99.75% and 99.7% purity) and Y_2O_3 (99.9%) and CuO (99.9%) powders. The effect of BaCO_3 purity on the formation of a 123 phase and the superconducting properties were investigated. The mixtures of raw powders were calcined at temperature ranges of 800°C-880°C in air and finally made into a single grain samples by a melt processing with top seeding. It was found that a 123 phase was well formed at temperature above 870°C, but the purity effect on the 123 formation was negligible. The single-grain 123 samples prepared from the different BaCO_3 powders showed the same T_c value of 90.5 K and similar J_c values about 104;A/cm2 at 0 T and 77 K, and 103;A/cm2 at 2 T and 77 K. This result indicates that the low purity, cheap price BaCO_3 powder can be used as a raw material for the fabrication of single-grain, high-J_c superconducting levitator.
Visible-light responsive TiO_2:Zr, N powders were prepared by polymer complex solution method and the particle properties were characterized by using transmission electron microscope, BET method, X-ray diffractometer and UV-Vis spectrophotometer. The photocatalytic reactivity of the catalysts was also estimated by analyzing NO degradation. Polyhedral TiO_2 powder having about 20 um in the average particle diameter was successfully prepared, The XRD analysis revealed that the as-prepared powder consisted of anatase and rutile phases. The light absorption of the as-prepared TiO_2:Zr, N powder was shifted to the visible light. In addition, the as-prepared TiO_2:Zr, N nanoparticles showed the higher photocatalytic activity than the commercial TiO_2 under both UV and visible lights.
The electromagnetic (EM) wave absorption properties with a variation of crystallization annealing temperature have been investigated in a sheet-type absorber using the Fe_73Si_16B_7Nb_3Cu_1 alloy powder. With increasing the annealing temperature the complex permeability (µ_r), permittivity (varepsilon_r) and power absorption changed. The EM wave absorber shows the maximum permeability and permittivity after the annealing at 610°C for 1 hour, and its calculated power absorption is above 80% of input power in the frequency range over 1.5 GHz.
Ni-20Cr-20Fe-5Nb alloy with or without Y_2O_3 was manufactured by mechanical alloying process and consolidated by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The grain size of the alloy with Y_2O_3 was smaller than that of alloy without Y_2O_3 which results from the effect of Y_2O_3 suppressing grain growth. The tensile strength at room temperature was increased by the addition of Y_2O_3 but decreased abruptly at temperature above 600°C. It seems to result from the change of deformation mechanism due to fine grain size, that is, grain boundary sliding is predominant at above 600°C while internal dislocation movement is predominant at below 600°C. After conventional heat treatment process of solution treatment and aging, a small amount of delta(Ni_3Nb) phase was formed in Ni-20Cr-20Fe-5Nb alloy while a large amount of gamma"(Ni_3Nb) was formed in Inconel 718 in the previous report. This is due to exhaustion of Nb content by the formation of NbC during consolidation.
In this study, the bottom-up powder metallurgy and the top-down severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques for manufacturing bulk nanomaterials were combined in order to achieve both full density and grain refinement without grain growth of rapidly solidified Al-20 wt% Si alloy powders during consolidation processing. Continuous equal channel multi-angular processing (C-ECMAP) was proposed to improve low productivity of conventional ECAP, one of the most promising method in SPD. As a powder consolidation method, C-ECMAP was employed. A wide range of experimental studies were carried out for characterizing mechanical properties and microstructures of the ECMAP processed materials. It was found that effective properties of high strength and full density maintaining nanoscale microstructure are achieved. The proposed SPD processing of powder materials can be a good method to achieve fully density and nanostructured materials.
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