SEMI-PASSIVE CONTROL OF SOLIDIFICATION IN POWDERED MATERIALS

    公开(公告)号:US20200261976A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16869739

    申请日:2020-05-08

    摘要: Disclosed herein are surface-functionalized powders which alter the solidification of the melted powders. Some variations provide a powdered material comprising a plurality of particles fabricated from a first material, wherein each of the particles has a particle surface area that is continuously or intermittently surface-functionalized with nanoparticles and/or microparticles selected to control solidification of the powdered material from a liquid state to a solid state. Other variations provide a method of controlling solidification of a powdered material, comprising melting at least a portion of the powdered material to a liquid state, and semi-passively controlling solidification of the powdered material from the liquid state to a solid state. Several techniques for semi-passive control are described in detail. The methods may further include creating a structure through one or more techniques selected from additive manufacturing, injection molding, pressing and sintering, capacitive discharge sintering, or spark plasma sintering.

    SEMI-PASSIVE CONTROL OF SOLIDIFICATION IN POWDERED MATERIALS

    公开(公告)号:US20220314316A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17838000

    申请日:2022-06-10

    摘要: Disclosed herein are surface-functionalized powders which alter the solidification of the melted powders. Some variations provide a powdered material comprising a plurality of particles fabricated from a first material, wherein each of the particles has a particle surface area that is continuously or intermittently surface-functionalized with nanoparticles and/or microparticles selected to control solidification of the powdered material from a liquid state to a solid state. Other variations provide a method of controlling solidification of a powdered material, comprising melting at least a portion of the powdered material to a liquid state, and semi-passively controlling solidification of the powdered material from the liquid state to a solid state. Several techniques for semi-passive control are described in detail. The methods may further include creating a structure through one or more techniques selected from additive manufacturing, injection molding, pressing and sintering, capacitive discharge sintering, or spark plasma sintering.

    ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH NANOFUNCTIONALIZED PRECURSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20210283689A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-16

    申请号:US17332229

    申请日:2021-05-27

    IPC分类号: B22F10/20 B22F5/12 B22F1/00

    摘要: Some variations provide a process for additive manufacturing of a nanofunctionalized metal alloy, comprising: providing a nanofunctionalized metal precursor containing metals and grain-refining nanoparticles; exposing a first amount of the nanofunctionalized metal precursor to an energy source for melting the precursor, thereby generating a first melt layer; solidifying the first melt layer, thereby generating a first solid layer; and repeating many times to generate a plurality of solid layers in an additive-manufacturing build direction. The additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy has a microstructure with equiaxed grains. Other variations provide an additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy comprising metals selected from aluminum, iron, nickel, copper, titanium, magnesium, zinc, silicon, lithium, silver, chromium, manganese, vanadium, bismuth, gallium, or lead; and grain-refining nanoparticles selected from zirconium, tantalum, niobium, titanium, or oxides, nitrides, hydrides, carbides, or borides thereof, wherein the additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy has a microstructure with equiaxed grains.

    ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH NANOFUNCTIONALIZED PRECURSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20240082913A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18517092

    申请日:2023-11-22

    摘要: Some variations provide a process for additive manufacturing of a nanofunctionalized metal alloy, comprising: providing a nanofunctionalized metal precursor containing metals and grain-refining nanoparticles; exposing a first amount of the nanofunctionalized metal precursor to an energy source for melting the precursor, thereby generating a first melt layer; solidifying the first melt layer, thereby generating a first solid layer; and repeating many times to generate a plurality of solid layers in an additive-manufacturing build direction. The additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy has a microstructure with equiaxed grains. Other variations provide an additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy comprising metals selected from aluminum, iron, nickel, copper, titanium, magnesium, zinc, silicon, lithium, silver, chromium, manganese, vanadium, bismuth, gallium, or lead; and grain-refining nanoparticles selected from zirconium, tantalum, niobium, titanium, or oxides, nitrides, hydrides, carbides, or borides thereof, wherein the additively manufactured, nanofunctionalized metal alloy has a microstructure with equiaxed grains.

    FUNCTIONALIZED ASPHERICAL POWDER FEEDSTOCKS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210146439A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US17026218

    申请日:2020-09-19

    IPC分类号: B22F9/04 B22F1/00 B22F1/02

    摘要: This disclosure provides an improvement over the state of the art by teaching a low-cost method to produce feedstock powder, without undergoing a phase change, from industrially relevant wrought alloys that are widely available at low cost. The surfaces of aspherical particles are functionalized with particulates having a different size and composition than the particles, to control the solidification response of the feedstock. Some variations provide a metal-containing functionalized material comprising: a plurality of aspherical particles comprising a metal or a metal alloy; and a plurality of metal-containing or ceramic particulates that are assembled on surfaces of the aspherical particles, wherein the particulates are compositionally different than the aspherical particles. Methods of making and using the metal-containing functionalized materials are described. The invention provides an economic advantage over traditional gas-atomized or water-atomized metal powder feedstocks for powder-based metal additive manufacturing or other powder metallurgy processes.

    SEMI-PASSIVE CONTROL OF SOLIDIFICATION IN POWDERED MATERIALS
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    发明申请
    SEMI-PASSIVE CONTROL OF SOLIDIFICATION IN POWDERED MATERIALS 审中-公开
    粉末状材料的半固态控制

    公开(公告)号:US20170021417A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-26

    申请号:US15209903

    申请日:2016-07-14

    摘要: Disclosed herein are surface-functionalized powders which alter the solidification of the melted powders. Some variations provide a powdered material comprising a plurality of particles fabricated from a first material, wherein each of the particles has a particle surface area that is continuously or intermittently surface-functionalized with nanoparticles and/or microparticles selected to control solidification of the powdered material from a liquid state to a solid state. Other variations provide a method of controlling solidification of a powdered material, comprising melting at least a portion of the powdered material to a liquid state, and semi-passively controlling solidification of the powdered material from the liquid state to a solid state. Several techniques for semi-passive control are described in detail. The methods may further include creating a structure through one or more techniques selected from additive manufacturing, injection molding, pressing and sintering, capacitive discharge sintering, or spark plasma sintering.

    摘要翻译: 本文公开了改变熔融粉末固化的表面官能化粉末。 一些变型提供了包括由第一材料制成的多个颗粒的粉末材料,其中每个颗粒具有连续或间歇地表面官能化的纳米颗粒和/或微粒的颗粒表面积,用于控制粉末材料的固化 液态到固态。 其它变型提供了一种控制粉末材料固化的方法,包括将至少一部分粉末材料熔化成液态,并半主动地控制粉末材料从液态至固态的固化。 详细描述了半无源控制的几种技术。 所述方法还可以包括通过选自添加剂制造,注塑,压制和烧结,电容放电烧结或火花等离子体烧结中的一种或多种技术来产生结构。