Fe-VC-FeC nanocomposites produced by mechanical synthesis from various starting components.

Autor: Lomaeva, S., Yazovskikh, K., Maratkanova, A., Volkov, V., Ul'yanov, A., Yelsukov, E.
Zdroj: Physics of Metals & Metallography; Mar2012, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p246-255, 10p
Abstrakt: Methods of X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and electron and atomic force microscopy have been used to study the sequence of structural and phase transformations upon mechanical alloying, annealing, and compacting of iron-vanadium-carbon alloys produced from mixtures of various compositions, such as powders of Fe (70 at %) and VC (30 at %); powders of pure elements of Fe (70 at %), V (15 at %), and graphite (15 at %); powders of Fe (70 at %) and V (15 at %) and toluene. It has been shown that in all cases the mechanical alloying results in the formation of nanocomposite powders with a complex phase composition representing a mixture of an α-Fe-based solid solution, carbide-based X-ray amorphous phase, and vanadium carbide VC. The annealing and compacting lead to the formation of an Fe-VC-FeC nanocomposite. The use of liquid organic media as the source of carbon makes it possible to obtain materials with a narrow grain-size distribution and a uniform spatial distribution of carbide phases, which results in high values of microhardness, to 12 GPa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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