Abstract
The sessile drop method has been used with a vacuum of 2.10−3 Pa to examine the wettability of aluminum nitride by fourteen molten pure metals as well as the effects of adding chromium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, and titanium to the liquids on the wetting angle in systems containing aluminum nitride and liquid tin, copper, and germanium. Aluminum nitride is wetted only by molten silicon and aluminum. Out of the elements examined, titanium is the most adhesion-active for this ceramic. The results are examined from the viewpoint of thermodynamic wetting theory.
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Materials Science Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Nos. 5–6, pp. 74–78, May—June, 1996. Original article submitted June 29, 1994.