Materials Science and Engineering

Preparation of spheroidized W-Cu pseudo-alloy micropowder with sub-micrometer particle structure using plasma technology

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  • A. V. SAMOKHIN1, N. V. ALEKSEEV1, A. A. DOROFEEV1, A. A. FADEEV1, M. A. SINAYSKIY1, I. D. ZAVERTIAEV1, Y. V. GRIGORIEV2
1. Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Leninsky prospect 49, Russian;
2. Federal Scientific Research Center “Crystallography and Photonics”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Leninsky prospect 59, Russian

Online published: 2024-02-25

Abstract

The possibility to obtain composite micropowders of the W-Cu system with spherical particles having sub-microscale/nanoscale internal structure was confirmed and studied using the complex multistage approach. Composite W-Cu nanoparticles with core–shell structure (W cores and Cu shells) were produced in plasmochemical synthesis in the first stage. Further spray-drying of the aqueous suspension of the W-Cu nanopowder with sucrose enabled the formation of 25-63 μm microgranules with a yield of 50%. The last step was the treatment of the nanopowder microgranules by a thermal plasma jet, which ensured the production of dense spherical W-Cu particles. The final powder had a spheroidization degree of 90%-95%, a bulk density of up to 8.1 g/cm3 and a flowability of 12 s/50 g. The contents of impurities in the resulting spherical micropowder were 0.7 wt.% O, 0.02-0.2 wt.% C and 0.03-0.05 wt.% H.

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A.V.SAMOKHIN,N.V.ALEKSEEV,A.A.DOROFEEV,A.A.FADEEV,M.A.SINAYSKIY,I.D.ZAVERTIAEV,Y.V.GRIGORIEV . Preparation of spheroidized W-Cu pseudo-alloy micropowder with sub-micrometer particle structure using plasma technology[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2024 , 34(2) : 592 -603 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(23)66420-9

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