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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Spark Plasma Sintering of Aluminum Nanocomposite Powders: Recent Strategy to Translate from Lab-Scale to Mass Production.

Roberto Hernández-Maya, Nicolás Antonio Ulloa-Castillo, 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 1 paper.

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5 authors.

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
Nicolás Antonio 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
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.ORCID 0000-0002-5661-2802

Funding

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

Abstract

The aim of this paper focuses on presenting a recent study that describes the fundamental steps needed to effectively scale-up from lab to mass production parts produced from Al powders reinforced with 0.5 wt% of industrial multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), with mechanical and electrical conductivity properties higher that those measured at the lab scale. The produced material samples were produced via a Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) process using nanocomposite aluminum powders elaborated with a planetary ball-mill at the lab scale, and high-volume attrition milling equipment in combination with controlled atmosphere sinter hardening furnace equipment, which were used to consolidate the material at the industrial level. Surprisingly, the electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of the samples produced with the reinforced nanocomposite Al powders were made with mass production equipment and were similar or higher than those samples fabricated using metallic powders prepared with ball-mill lab equipment. Experimental measurements show that the hardness and the electrical conductivity properties of the samples fabricated with the mass production Al powders are 48% and 7.5% higher than those of the produced lab samples. This paper elucidates the steps that one needs to follow during the mass production process of reinforced aluminum powders to improve the physical properties of metallic samples consolidated via the SPS process.

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aluminum nanocomposite materialfrom lab to mass productionindustrial implementation processmulti-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)reinforced Al powdersscale up process

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PMID34947721
PMCPMC8703508

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