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Influence of alloying on the tensile strength and electrical resistivity of silver nanowire: copper composites macroscopic wires

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Composite powders made up of 1 vol. %Ag nanowires (NW) dispersed in Cu were prepared and consolidated into cylinders by spark plasma sintering. One cylinder was sintered at only 400 °C resulting in a nanocomposite sample with no dissolution of the Ag NW into the Cu matrix. The second cylinder was sintered at 600 °C and the Ag NW are dissolved forming Ag/Cu alloy NW. The cylinders served as starting materials for room temperature wire-drawing, enabling the preparation of wires of decreasing diameters. The microstructure of the cylinders and the wires was investigated by electron microscopy and associated techniques. The tensile strength and electrical resistivity were measured at 293 K and 77 K. The nanocomposite and alloy wires show similar UTS values (1100 MPa at 77 K), but alloying, although spatially limited, provoked a significant increase in electrical resistivity (0.56 µΩ cm at 77 K) compared to the nanocomposite wires (0.49 µΩ cm at 77 K).

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Electron microscopy was performed at “Centre de microcaractérisation Raimond Castaing—UMS 3623" (Toulouse). The authors thank Dr. C. Josse (Castaing), Dr. A. Weibel (CIRIMAT) and Dr. G. Rikken (LNCMI) for discussions.

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  1. CIRIMAT, CNRS-INPT-UPS, Université Toulouse 3 Paul-Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Simon Tardieu, David Mesguich, Antoine Lonjon, Geoffroy Chevallier, Claude Estournès & Christophe Laurent

  2. Laboratoire National Des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, EMFL, CNRS-INSA-UGA-UPS, Grenoble, Toulouse, France

    Simon Tardieu, Florence Lecouturier-Dupouy & Nelson Ferreira

  3. Plateforme Nationale CNRS de Frittage Flash, PNF2, Université Toulouse 3 Paul-Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex 9, MHT, 31062, France

    Geoffroy Chevallier & Claude Estournès

  4. Centre de Microcaractérisation Raimond Castaing, Université de Toulouse, UMS 3623, Espace Clément Ader, 3 rue Caroline Aigle, Toulouse, 31400, France

    Arnaud Proietti

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Tardieu, S., Mesguich, D., Lonjon, A. et al. Influence of alloying on the tensile strength and electrical resistivity of silver nanowire: copper composites macroscopic wires. J Mater Sci 56, 4884–4895 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05556-9

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