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Grain refinement and tensile strength of carbon nanotube-reinforced Cu matrix nanocomposites processed by high-pressure torsion

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In recent years, the processing of metallic materials via severe plastic deformation has been widely applied to manufacture bulk specimens of ultrafine grained/nanocrystalline structures. In this study, bulk nanocomposites of carbon nanotube-reinforced Cu were manufactured by consolidation of mixtures of coarse grained Cu powders and CNTs of two volume fractions (5 vol% and 10 vol%) using high-pressure torsion, a typical SPD method. The effects of CNT reinforcements on the microstructural evolution of the Cu matrix were investigated using electron backscatter diffraction and scanning/transmission electron microscopy; the results showed that the Cu matrix grain size was reduced to ∼114 nm, and the CNTs were well dispersed in the matrix. Due to the effect of the UFG Cu and CNTs, the tensile strength (350 MPa) of the nanocomposite was higher than that (190 MPa) of Cu processed by the powder HPT process without CNTs. However, the Cu-CNT 10 vol% indicated a decreased tensile strength due to an increased interface area between the matrix and CNTs at high volume fractions of CNTs.

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  1. Center for Advanced Aerospace Materials, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Eun Yoo Yoon & Hyoung Seop Kim

  2. Light Metal Division, Materials Deformation Department, Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), Changwon, 641-831, Korea

    Eun Yoo Yoon

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Dong Jun Lee, Byungho Park & Hyoung Seop Kim

  4. Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC), P.O. Box 14155-4777, Tehran, Iran

    M. R. Akbarpour & M. Farvizi

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Yoon, E.Y., Lee, D.J., Park, B. et al. Grain refinement and tensile strength of carbon nanotube-reinforced Cu matrix nanocomposites processed by high-pressure torsion. Met. Mater. Int. 19, 927–932 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-013-5004-4

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