Recent developments on fabrication of Al‐matrix composites reinforced with quasicrystals: from metastable to conventional processing

W Wolf, C Bolfarini, CS Kiminami, WJ Botta - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Quasicrystalline alloys and their composites have been extensively studied due to their
complex atomic structures, mechanical properties, and their unique tribological and thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Al-Mn alloys for electrical applications: a review

W Shen, A Hu, S Liu, H Hu - Journal of Alloys and Metallurgical Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of lightweight Al alloys with high electrical conductivities, tensile
properties and low cost are highly needed for market expansion of battery-powered electric …

Single step fabrication by spray forming of large volume Al-based composites reinforced with quasicrystals

W Wolf, LPM e Silva, G Zepon, CS Kiminami… - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently it was shown that the Al–Cu–Fe–Cr system can form a microstructure consisting
mainly of quasicrystalline and α-Al phases by arc-melting and subsequent annealing of an …

Novel Al based nanoquasicrystalline alloys

M Galano, F Audebert - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The Al-based nanoquasicrystalline alloys are modern light weight alloys that respond to a
strategy to develop new Al-based alloys with excellent combination of properties over a …

Effects of W and Si microadditions on microstructure and the strength of dilute precipitation-strengthened Al–Zr–Er alloys

AR Farkoosh, DC Dunand, DN Seidman - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of single or combined micro-additions of tungsten (0.03 at.%) and silicon (0.02–
0.40 at.%) on the evolution of Al 3 (Zr, Er)(L1 2) nanoprecipitates in a cast Al-0.11 Zr-0.005 …

Wear and corrosion performance of Al-Cu-Fe-(Cr) quasicrystalline coatings produced by HVOF

W Wolf, GY Koga, R Schulz, S Savoie… - Journal of Thermal …, 2020 - Springer
High-velocity oxygen fuel coatings were produced using gas-atomized Al 62.5 Cu 25 Fe
12.5 and Al 67 Cu 20 Fe 5 Cr 8 powders onto a ferritic stainless-steel substrate, resulting in …

Fabrication of Al-matrix composite reinforced with quasicrystals using conventional metallurgical fabrication methods

W Wolf, C Bolfarini, CS Kiminami, WJ Botta - Scripta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Al-matrix composites reinforced with quasicrystals are mostly fabricated by methods that
apply rapid solidification techniques or by means of powder metallurgy. In this work, we …

Formation of a quasicrystalline phase in Al–Mn base alloys cast at intermediate cooling rates

K Stan-Głowińska, Ł Rogal, A Góral… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Al-rich 94Al–6Mn and 94Al–4Mn–2Fe alloys were suction-cast to evaluate the
feasibility of obtaining bulk quasicrystal-strengthened Al-alloys at intermediate cooling rates …

Designing new quasicrystalline compositions in Al-based alloys

W Wolf, C Bolfarini, CS Kiminami, WJ Botta - Journal of Alloys and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, we present and discuss the most important results that were obtained in
the past few years related with the development of new quaternary quasicrystalline alloys …

Effects of hot-compaction on the structure and properties of Al-Mn-Fe-X alloys strengthened with quasi-crystalline icosahedral phase

K Stan-Głowińska, L Lityńska-Dobrzyńska, B Kania… - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
Melt-spun ribbons of Al 91 Mn 6 Fe 2 X 1 (X= Mn, Mo, V) were used as a feedstock to obtain
bulk materials by mechanical milling and subsequent hot-pressing compaction …