Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 11, Pages 1323-1328Publisher
JOURNAL MATER SCI TECHNOL
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2017.03.010
Keywords
Nanostructured copper matrix composites; Minor alloying; Annealing; Grain growth; Particle coarsening
Funding
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51271115]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, China [2012CB619600]
- SJTU-UNSW Strategic Collaboration
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Both the coarsening of Al2O3 nanoparticles and the growth of Cu nanograins of mechanically milled nanostructured Cu-5vol.% Al2O3 composites with, and without, trace amounts of Ti during annealing at 973 K for 1 h were investigated. It was found that doping with a small amount of Ti (e.g. 0.2 wt%) in a nanostructured Cu-5vol.% Al2O3 composite effectively suppressed the coarsening of Al2O3 nanoparticles during exposure at this temperature. Further, the Ti addition also prevented the concomitant abnormal growth of the copper grains normally caused by the coarsening of the Al2O3 nanoparticles. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis of the Al2O3 nanoparticles in the annealed Cu-5vol.% Al2O3-0.2wt% Ti sample suggested that the Ti atoms either diffused into the Al2O3 nanoparticles or segregated to the Cu/Al2O3 interfaces to form Ti-doped Al2O3 nanoparticles, which was more stable than Ti-free Al2O3 nanoparticles during annealing at high homologous temperatures. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The editorial office of Journal of Materials Science & Technology.
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