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Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials

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OSTI ID:871419
A process for producing multi-component and multiphase nanophase materials is provided wherein a plurality of elements are vaporized in a controlled atmosphere, so as to facilitate thorough mixing, and then condensing and consolidating the elements. The invention also provides for a multicomponent and multiphase nanocrystalline material of specified elemental and phase composition having component grain sizes of between approximately 1 nm and 100 nm. This material is a single element in combination with a binary compound. In more specific embodiments, the single element in this material can be a transition metal element, a non-transition metal element, a semiconductor, or a semi-metal, and the binary compound in this material can be an intermetallic, an oxide, a nitride, a hydride, a chloride, or other compound.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL; Northwestern University
Sponsoring Organization:
United States Department of Energy
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38; FG02-86ER45229
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
Patent Number(s):
US 5728195
OSTI ID:
871419
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Synthesis of nanophase materials by electron beam evaporation journal July 1993
Synthesis and properties studies of nanocrystalline Al-Al3Zr journal October 1994