Premium
Microcellular Aluminium? – Child's Play!
Author(s) -
Goodall R.,
Mortensen A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.200700190
Subject(s) - materials science , aluminium , metallurgy , composite material
An innovation (patent pending) in the NaCl‐based replication process for the manufacture of microcellular aluminium is presented that overcomes the limitations with the conventional method regarding large pore sizes (because large salt particles are often irregular in shape) and with large sample sizes (because of the long time that is then required for the dissolution step). The method uses a technique used by children to make hardenable modelling paste.