Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Formation Mechanism of Ternary Carbide Ti3AlC2 by Combustion Synthesis

GE Zhen-Bin1; CHEN Ke-Xin1; GUO Jun-Ming1,2; ZHOU He-Ping1; NING Xiao-Shan1   

  1. 1.Department of Material Science & Engineering; The State Key Lab of New Ceramics & Fine Processing; Tsinghua University; Beijing 100084; China; 2.Department of Chemistry; Mengzi Teachers College; Yunnan Mengzi 661100; China
  • Received:2002-02-01 Revised:2002-03-19 Published:2003-03-20 Online:2003-03-20

Abstract: The formation mechanism of Ti3AlC2 powders by the combustion synthesis was investigated by analyzing the microstructure and phase content of the quenched sample. The results show that the mechanism of the reaction is a solution- precipitation mechanism: at first previously formed TiC particles dissolve in the Ti-Al melt, followed by the precipitation of ternary phase Ti3AlC2 that will grow into a layered morphology. The model of combustion synthesis of Ti3AlC2 can be divided into four stages: unreacted stage, preheating and initial reacting stage, dissolution and precipitation stage, completely reacted stage.

Key words: Ti3AlC2, mechanism, combustion synthesis, powders

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