Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials
Abstract
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. 6 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 597145
- Patent Number(s):
- 5728195
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-801,672
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38; FG02-86ER45229
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 17 Mar 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FABRICATION; EVAPORATION; CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES; COMPACTING; GRAIN SIZE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMIMETALS; INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; NITRIDES; HYDRIDES; CHLORIDES
Citation Formats
Eastman, J A, Rittner, M N, Youngdahl, C J, and Weertman, J R. Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials. United States: N. p., 1998.
Web.
Eastman, J A, Rittner, M N, Youngdahl, C J, & Weertman, J R. Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials. United States.
Eastman, J A, Rittner, M N, Youngdahl, C J, and Weertman, J R. Tue .
"Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials". United States.
@article{osti_597145,
title = {Method for producing nanocrystalline multicomponent and multiphase materials},
author = {Eastman, J A and Rittner, M N and Youngdahl, C J and Weertman, J R},
abstractNote = {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. 6 figs.},
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