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Ligand-Mediated Nucleation and Growth of Palladium Metal Nanoparticles
Published on: June 25, 2018
Nucleation and growth of TiAl3 intermetallic phase in diffusion bonded Ti/Al Metal Intermetallic Laminate
N Thiyaneshwaran1, K Sivaprasad2, B Ravisankar1
1Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620015, India.
Abstract:
A novel nucleation and growth phenomenon for TiAl3 intermetallic phase in Ti/Al diffusion couple is proposed based on diffusion kinetics. The interdiffusion and intrinsic diffusion co-efficients are calculated to make evident of dominant diffusion of Al towards Ti in Ti/Al diffusion couple obtained by solid state diffusion bonding. It was surprising to observe that the diffusion rate of Al was around 20 times higher than Ti with the formation of Kirkendall pores near the Al/TiAl3 interface. With such dominant diffusion of Al towards Ti, the nucleation and growth of TiAl3 intermetallic phase in Ti/Al couple happens mainly at the Ti/TiAl3 interface rather than Al/TiAl3 interface which is evident by the presence of very fine nearly nano-sized TiAl3 nuclei/grains near the Ti/TiAl3 interface. Even though the intermetallic phase is expected to nucleate at Al/TiAl3 interface, the relatively larger TiAl3 grains near that interface depicts grain growth with minimal nucleation. The theoretical calculations on diffusion parameters are in accordance with experimental observations of TiAl3 intermetallic growth phenomenon in Ti/Al system.
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