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Directionally solidified porous copper is considered as a potential candidate in the field of microchannel heat sinks. By the Bridgman-type directional solidification method, a porous copper ingot was fabricated. Evolution of the porosity, pore number density, average pore diameter and average interpore spacing at different ingot heights was investigated. The results show that with the increase of ingot height, the porosity firstly increases and then basically remains unchanged from the ignot height of 65 mm; the pore number density rapidly decreases at first, and the decreasing speed becomes slower when the ignot height higher than 85 mm; the average pore diameter increases and then remains unchanged from the ingot height of 85 mm; the average interpore spacing increases, and the increasing speed of average interpore spacing becomes slower with the increase of height to higher than 85 mm. In order to study the evolution of diameter and spatial distribution of pores, the distribution ranges of pore diameter, nearest-neighbor distance and radial cumulative pore number were analyzed. As the ingot height increases, the distribution ranges of pore diameter and nearest-neighbor distance firstly increase and then tend to be stable. There are no pore clusters and for long distance, the spatial distribution of pores is uniform at different ingot heights. Pore structure and 3D pore morphology of porous copper were observed with the help of light illumination and X-ray tomography. Pore nucleation, pore interruption, pore coalescence, diameter change of pores and lateral displacement of pores were found to exist in the pore structure.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51371104).
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Yan-xiang Li Male, born in 1962, tenure professor in School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research interests concern solidification processing, porous metals (aluminum foams and lotus-type metals), and casting alloys (cast irons, cast steels). He is currently the chairman of the WFO Ferrous Metals Committee and a member of Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.
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Liu, Xb., Li, Yx., Zhang, Hw. et al. Pore structure analysis of directionally solidified porous copper. China Foundry 17, 325–331 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41230-020-0006-6
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