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Processing of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Aluminum Composite

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Carbon nanotube reinforced aluminum (Al) composites were produced by hot-press and hot-extrusion methods. The interfacial structure between the carbon nanotube and Al was examined using a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and the mechanical properties were measured by a tensile test. TEM observations have shown that the nanotubes in the composites are not damaged during the composite preparation and that no reaction products at the nanotube/Al interface are visible after annealing for 24 h at 983 K. The strength of the composites is only slightly affected by the annealing time at 873 K, while that of the pure Al produced in a similar powder metallurgy process significantly decreases with time. These studies are considered to yield experimental information valuable for producing high performance composites.

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  1. Department of Materials Science, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7–3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113–8656, Tokyo, Japan

    T. Kuzumaki, K. Miyazawa, H. Ichinose & K. Ito

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Kuzumaki, T., Miyazawa, K., Ichinose, H. et al. Processing of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Aluminum Composite. Journal of Materials Research 13, 2445–2449 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1998.0340

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