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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Enhancement of Electrical Conductivity of Aluminum-Based Nanocomposite Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering.

Nicolás A Ulloa-Castillo, Roberto Hernández-Maya, Jorge Islas-Urbano, Oscar Martínez-Romero, Emmanuel Segura-Cárdenas, Alex Elías-Zúñiga

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicolás A Ulloa-CastilloTecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Engineering and Sciences, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada Sur 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-2035-950X
Roberto Hernández-MayaSiemens, Research and Development Department, Libramiento Arco Vial Poniente Km 4.2, Santa Catarina 66350, Nuevo León, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-3803-5199
Jorge Islas-UrbanoTecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Engineering and Sciences, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada Sur 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Oscar Martínez-RomeroTecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Engineering and Sciences, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada Sur 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-3837-2083
Emmanuel Segura-CárdenasTecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Engineering and Sciences, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada Sur 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Alex Elías-ZúñigaTecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Materials, School of Engineering and Sciences, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada Sur 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Tecnológico de Monterrey · MX

Funding

National Lab in Additive Manufacturing, 3D Digitizing and Computed Tomography (MADiT) LN299129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article focuses on exploring how the electrical conductivity and densification properties of metallic samples made from aluminum (Al) powders reinforced with 0.5 wt % concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and consolidated through spark plasma sintering (SPS) process are affected by the carbon nanotubes dispersion and the Al particles morphology. Experimental characterization tests performed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) show that the MWCNTs were uniformly ball-milled and dispersed in the Al surface particles, and undesirable phases were not observed in X-ray diffraction measurements. Furthermore, high densification parts and an improvement of about 40% in the electrical conductivity values were confirmed via experimental tests performed on the produced sintered samples. These results elucidate that modifying the powder morphology using the ball-milling technique to bond carbon nanotubes into the Al surface particles aids the ability to obtain highly dense parts with increasing electrical conductivity properties.

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aluminum matrix nanocompositeselectrical conductivitymulti-walled CNTsspark plasma sintering

Identifiers

PMID33925115
PMCPMC8170884
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