Bulk tungsten with uniformly dispersed La2O3 nanoparticles sintered from co-precipitated La2O3/W nanoparticles
Bulk tungsten with uniformly dispersed La2O3 nanoparticles sintered from co-precipitated La2O3/W nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.11.017
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发表时间:
2013-03
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Min Xia;Q. Yan;Lei Xu;Hongyan Guo;Lingxu Zhu;C. Ge
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作者:
Min Xia;Q. Yan;Lei Xu;Hongyan Guo;Lingxu Zhu;C. Ge
We report the preparation of 1wt% La2O3doped La2O3/W nanoparticles by a co-precipitation process, using ammonium metatungstate (AMT) and lanthanum nitrate as raw materials. The as-synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Filed-emission scanning electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy. Our results reveal that the as-synthesized particles possess uniform diameters of about 70nm, and are of high purity. The TEM and the corresponding fast Fourier transform images demonstrated that La2O3precipitates were homogeneously doped into the nano-sized tungsten particles. When the as-synthesized nanoparticles were sintered by spark plasma sintering, the electron backscatter diffraction images of the bulk material reveal that La2O3nanoparticles were homogenously distributed in both the tungsten grains and the grain boundaries, and the sample exhibit a narrow micro-hardness distribution.