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In Situ Preparation of TiCx Particles with Different Sizes and Self-Assembly Behavior Analysis of TiCx/Al-Bi Alloy

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In this paper, TiCx particles were prepared by an in situ process and added to an Al-Bi alloy, and the effects of TiCx particles on the homogenization preparation and refinement mechanism of Al-Bi alloys were studied. The TiCx particle size can be greatly reduced by decreasing graphite particle size, and the TiCx particle size was further reduced after changing C source from graphite to MLG. The TiCx particle gradually changed from angular octahedral to truncated octahedral and then became round with the C/Ti ratio increasing from 0.4 to 1.0. After the TiCx particles being added to the Al-Bi alloy, it was found that TiCx had a significant inhibitory effect on the macrosegregation and coarsening of Bi phase. The average diameter of the Bi phase decreased from 4.32 μm to 3.45 μm with the TiCx particle size decreased, and the distribution became more dispersed and uniform, contributing to the heterogeneous nucleation and self-assembly behavior of TiCx particle. With the decreasing of TiCx particle size, the refinement mechanism evolved from heterogeneous nucleation to self-assembly.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51575151 and 51775158) and Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (No. 1908085QE195)

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    Congmin Li, Yanguo Yin, Ming Xu, Rongrong Li, Cong Liu, Jilin Miao, Qi Chen & Ruhong Song

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, 243032, People’s Republic of China

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Li, C., Yin, Y., Xu, M. et al. In Situ Preparation of TiCx Particles with Different Sizes and Self-Assembly Behavior Analysis of TiCx/Al-Bi Alloy. JOM 75, 2828–2840 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-023-05836-0

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