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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 13(5), p. 9574-9580, 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c4ra15622f

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Concurrence of de-alloying and re-alloying in a ternary Al67Cu18Sn15 alloy and the fabrication of 3D nanoporous Cu-Sn composite structures

Journal article published in 2015 by Ming Yan, Yulai Gao, Tingting Song ORCID, Andrej Atrens, M. Qian
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We report the concurrence of de-alloying and re-alloying in a ternary Al67Cu18Sn15 alloy (at.%) de-alloyed in a 5 wt.% hydrochloric acid (HCl) solution at 70 ± 2 oC, and the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) nanoporous Cu3Sn-Cu-Cu6Sn5 composite in the existence form of self-supporting foils. Re-alloying occurred in Al67Cu18Sn15 compared to de-alloying alone in binary Al-Cu alloys. Both Cu3Sn and Cu6Sn5 phases formed through an accompanied re-alloying process. This finding further proves the temperature sensitivity of phase formation in the Cu-Sn system established from Cu-Sn diffusion couple studies, and demonstrates the capability of designing and creating nanoporous composite materials via de-alloying a multicomponent alloy.