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Spontaneous Infiltration of Alumina by Copper‐Oxygen Alloys
Author(s) -
Gonzalez Eduardo J.,
Trumble Kevin P.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb07888.x
Subject(s) - wetting , copper , infiltration (hvac) , oxygen , materials science , microstructure , supersaturation , metallurgy , adsorption , chemical engineering , composite material , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering
Infiltration of alumina powder compacts by molten copper‐oxygen alloys under controlled oxygen partial pressures has been studied. Spontaneous infiltration occurred for copper alloys containing more than approximately 5 at.% oxygen. Despite supersaturation of the copper with oxygen, no Cu 2 O or interfacial reaction layers of CuAlO 2 were resolved by TEM, suggesting the critical wettability for infiltration is not determined by interfacial chemical reaction. CuAlO 2 did form, but as discrete inclusions up to 0.5 mm in diameter. Infiltration and microstructure development are discussed in terms of the observed wetting behavior and available data on interfacial oxygen adsorption.