Method of soft metal (Cu) strengthening of Ti3SiC2 was conducted to increase the hardness and improve the wear resistance of Ti3SiC2. Ti3SiC2/Cu composites containing 15 vol.% Cu were fabricated by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) in a vacuum. The effect...
Ti3SiC2/Cu composites were prepared using spark plasma sintering technology, and the effect of the velocity–load bivariate on the tribological behaviors of the Ti3SiC2/Cu-45# steel tribo-pair at 800 °C was investigated. The physical change...
The electrochemical corrosion behaviors of Ti3SiC2/Cu composites in harsh media including dilute HNO3 and concentrated H2SO4 were studied in detail and the related corrosion mechanisms were explored. Under open-circuit potential, the corrosion resist...
This study involved the preparation and characterization of in situ (TiC-TiB2)/Al-4.7Cu-0.32Mg-0.44Si composites with excellent mechanical and abrasive wear properties. The composites were synthesized in an Al-Ti-B4C system by combining combustion re...
In the present study, composites Cu–Ti3SiC2 were obtained via extrusion-based additive manufacturing technology. The composite was characterized in terms of its structure, mechanical properties, and tribological properties. The use of a low-ene...
As a high-temperature structural material, Ni3Al matrix composites are often used to manufacture basic mechanical components that need to be used in high-temperature conditions. To meet the increasing demand for metal matrix composites with an excell...
The aim of this research was to characterize soldering alloys of the type Sn–Sb–Ti and to study the ultrasonic soldering of SiC ceramics with a metal–ceramic composite of the type Cu–SiC. The Sn5Sb3Ti solder exerts a thermal transformation of a perit...
In this work, SiC ceramics were successfully brazed at 900 °C using a composite brazing filler, and the effects of holding time and LiAlSiO4 addition on the interfacial microstructure and mechanical properties of the joints were systematically in...
In this work, the TiC and Ti5Si3-reinforced Cu matrix composites with different contents were successfully prepared through Ti–SiC reaction in Cu melts; accordingly, the microstructures of them were studied, and the hardness of the composites w...
The Ti3SiC2TiSix ceramic composite was synthesized in situ from a mixture of 3Ti:1.5Si:1.2C powders under pressures ranging from 2 to 5 GPa and temperatures of 1150 °C to 1400 °C. At medium and high temperatures (4–5 GPa and 1400 °C...
Cu/Ti3SiC2/C/BN/GNPs nanocomposites were prepared by vacuum hot-pressing (HP) sintering and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) sintering methods. Microstructures, mechanical and tribological properties of Cu/Ti3SiC2/C/BN/GNPs nanocomposites were investigat...
In this study, hard wear-resistant Ti-Si-C coatings were deposited on Cu-Cr materials to improve their performance as sliding electrical contact materials. A ceramic disk composed of Ti3SiC2 and TiC phases was used as a target for DC magnetron sputte...
The use of silicon carbide particles (SiCp) as reinforcement in aluminium (Al)-based composites (Al/SiCp) can offer high hardness and high stiffness. The rare-earth elements like lanthanum (La) and cerium (Ce) and transition metals like nickel (Ni) a...
Enhancing the oxidation resistance of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) is a crucial objective in plasmonic photocatalytic reactions. In this study, a series of Cu/X catalysts was synthesized using semiconductor nanomaterials (X = TiO2, ZnO, BN, TiN, SiC,...
GH4169 superalloy and Si3N4 ceramics were vacuum-brazed with AgCuTi+Cu foam composite filler. The effect of brazing temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the GH4169/Si3N4 joint was studied. The results show that the interface...
It is a common practice in the plastics industry to compound polymers with fillers to reduce the manufacturing cost and/or attain desired properties. By combining different fillers with various polymer matrices, polymer composites can be tailored to...
The paper demonstrates the potential of wet ball milling of metals for the synthesis of various carbides and carbohydrides. The work reports on multicomponent carbides formed in Ti-(Cu/Fe/Si)-C, W-Fe-C, and Nb-(Cu/Fe/Si/Al)-C systems, as well as meta...
Titanium diboride (TiB2) is a hard, refractory material, attractive for a number of applications, including wear-resistant machine parts and tools, but it is difficult to densify. The spark plasma sintering (SPS) method allows producing TiB2-based co...
The vacuum brazing of dissimilar electronic packaging materials has been investigated. In this research, this applies silicon particle-reinforced aluminum matrix composites (Sip/Al MMCs) to Kovar alloys. Active melt-spun ribbons were employed as braz...
Integrating nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films on silicon chips has great practical significance and many potential applications, including high-power electronic devices, microelectromechanical systems, optoelectronic devices, and biosensors. In thi...
To prepare core-shell-structured Ti@compound particle (Ti@compoundp) reinforced Al matrix composite via powder thixoforming, the effects of alloying elements, such as Si, Cu, Mg, and Zn, on the reaction between Ti powders and Al melt, and the microst...
TiC bonded diamond composites were prepared from a mixture of Ti, graphite, and diamond powders as raw materials, with Si as sintering additives, through high-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP) technology. The reaction between Ti and graphite under...
The generation of microactuation using narrow thermal hysteresis Ti-Ni-Cu shape-memory alloy films deposited on non-metallic substrates as the active element is studied based on a model previously developed for Ni-Ti/Si bimorphs. To this end, the com...
Novel ultra-strong medium entropy bulk metallic glasses composites (BMGCs) Fe65.4−xCexMn14.3Si9.4Cr10C0.9 and Ti40−xCexNi40Cu20 (x = 0, 1.0), through the martensite transformation induced plasticity (TRIP effect) to enhance both the ducti...
In this study, metal–silicide-based contacts to GaN-cap/AlGaN/AlN-spacer/GaN-on-Si heterostructure were investigated. Planar Schottky diodes with Cu-covered anodes comprising silicide layers of various metal–silicon (M–Si) compositi...
Ti containing Cu-based (TC) alloy reinforced glass-ceramic bond was fabricated for cubic boron nitride (CBN) abrasive tool materials, and its crystal composition, phase transformation, sintering activation energy, microstructure, element diffusion ma...
A non-standardized hypereutectic aluminum–silicon alloy, AlSi18Cu3CrMn, was developed. To refine the structure of the studied composition, a phosphorus modifier was used in an amount of 0.04 wt %, and a complex modifying treatment was applied b...
The goal of this research was to determine how the master alloys Al-5Ti-0.25C-0.25B and Al-5Ti-1B affected the mechanical properties and structural characteristics of the alloy Al-9.5Si-1.5Cu-0.8Mn-0.6Mg. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (...
The cooling paths and kinetics in the system Cu-Fe-O are investigated by the empirical micro- and nanoscale analysis of slags from the flash furnace smelter at Olympic Dam, South Australia. We aim to constrain the exsolution mechanism of delafossite...
The use of titanium and titanium-based alloys in the human body due to their resistance to corrosion, implant ology and dentistry has led to significant progress in promoting new technologies. Regarding their excellent mechanical, physical and biolog...
The effect of 0.2%Cr addition on the structure, phase composition, and mechanical properties of the novel cast and wrought Al-2.5Zn-2.5Mg-2.5Cu-0.2Zr-Er(Y) alloys were investigated in detail. Chromium is distributed between primary crystals (5.7&ndas...
Chemiresistors based on thin films of the Li-doped CuO–TiO2 heterojunctions were synthesized by a 2-step method: (i) repeated ion beam sputtering of the building elements (on the Si substrates and multisensor platforms); and (ii) thermal annealing in...
The Kletno deposit in the Śnieżnik Massif (Central Sudetes, SW Poland), mined for Fe, U, Ag, Cu, fluorite, and marble through the ages, developed at the contact of marbles and orthogneiss. Here, we present a new Fe-Ti-V-ore (containing up to 14.07 wt...
Aluminium alloy foam is a lightweight material with high energy absorption properties and can potentially replace bulk Al-components. The aim of this work is to develop a brazing technique to join aluminium facing sheets to aluminium alloy foam to ob...
The new mineral achyrophanite (K,Na)3(Fe3+,Ti,Al,Mg)5O2(AsO4)5 was found in high-temperature sublimates of the Arsenatnaya fumarole at the Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kam...
Powder and selective laser melting (SLM) additively manufactured parts of X5CrNiCuNb17-4 maraging steel were systematically investigated by electron microscopy to understand the relationship between the properties of the powder grains and the microst...
Simultaneous generation of plasma by microwave irradiation of perovskite or the spinel type of silica supported porous catalyst oxides and their reduction by nitrogen in the presence of oxygen is demonstrated. As a result of plasma generation in air,...
In this study, NiCuZn ferrites were prepared via a solid-phase method at a reduced sintering temperature of 925 °C. A composite additive system was developed by incorporating Bi2O3-MgO-Li2CO3-SiO2 (BMLS) glass with varying amounts of either CaTiO...
The mineral chemistry of chromite and silicate minerals in the Baixintan magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposit in the Northern Tianshan, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) are reported here. Two types of chromite were identified in mafic-ultramafic...
Skarnoid calc-silicate xenoliths composed of anorthite, clinopyroxene and Mg-Al spinel occur in alkali basalts of the Pliocene-Pleistocene intra-plate magmatic province in the northern part of the Pannonian Basin. Randomly oriented and elongated pseu...
The exposure of plants to weak magnetic fields (MFs) of various intensities and for different times is increasingly adopted to sustainably enhance plant growth in plant-based applications such as modern agriculture, phytoremediation and biogas produc...
Indoor and outdoor ultrafine, accumulation mode, and coarse fractions collected at two preschools (S1 and S2) in Hanoi capital, Vietnam were characterized in terms of mass-size distribution and elemental composition to identify major emission sources...