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Freeze Drying Process and Pore Structure Characteristics of Porous Cu with Various Sublimable Vehicles
Gyuhwi Lee, Sung-Tag Oh, Myung-Jin Suk, Young-Keun Jeong
J Korean Powder Metall Inst. 2020;27(3):198-202.   Published online June 1, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4150/KPMI.2020.27.3.198
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The effect of sublimable vehicles on the pore structure of Cu fabricated by freeze drying is investigated. The 5 vol% CuO-dispersed slurries with camphene and various camphor-naphthalene compositions are frozen in a Teflon mold at -25°C, followed by sublimation at room temperature. After hydrogen reduction at 300°C and sintering at 600 °C, the green bodies of CuO are completely converted to Cu with various pore structures. The sintered samples prepared using CuO/camphene slurries show large pores that are aligned parallel to the sublimable vehicle growth direction. In addition, a dense microstructure is observed in the bottom section of the specimen where the solidification heat was released, owing to the difference in the solidification behavior of the camphene crystals. The porous Cu shows different pore structures, such as dendritic, rod-like, and plate shaped, depending on the composition of the camphornaphthalene system. The change in pore structure is explained by the crystal growth behavior of primary camphor and eutectic and primary naphthalene.


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