First Exploration of Hot Isostatic Pressing High-Throughput Synthesis on Fe-Co-Ni Combinatorial Alloy
ZHAO Lei1,2, WANG Hui1,2, YANG Lixia1,2, CHEN Xuebin3, LANG Runqiu3, HE Linfeng4, CHEN Dongfeng4, WANG Haizhou1,2()
1.Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, China 2.Beijing Key Laboratory of Metal Materials Characterization, The NCS Testing Technology Co. , Ltd. , Beijing 100081, China 3.National Center for Materials Service Safety, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China 4.Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, China
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ZHAO Lei, WANG Hui, YANG Lixia, CHEN Xuebin, LANG Runqiu, HE Linfeng, CHEN Dongfeng, WANG Haizhou. First Exploration of Hot Isostatic Pressing High-Throughput Synthesis on Fe-Co-Ni Combinatorial Alloy. Acta Metall Sin, 2021, 57(12): 1627-1636.
Material genome engineering (MGE) is an advanced research concept that integrates high-throughput computing, high-throughput experiment (synthesis and characterization), and a special database. The purpose of MGE is to adopt an efficient and economical method to accelerate the correlation between the composition, microstructure, and performance. However, low composition, small size, characterization difficulty, and high cost limit its application in the high-throughput synthesis of a bulk metal. A new high-throughput synthesis based on hot isostatic pressing (HIP), which uses a honeycomb structure sleeve made of pure Ni and Ti foils, was proposed. A combinatorial-bulk-alloy with 19 gradient components was HIPed by filling different mixtures of pure Fe, Co, and Ni powders into each cell of the honeycomb sleeve. The high-throughput characterization of the composition and microstructure showed that the composition of each cell was homogeneous and in accordance with the design, the mixed powders diffused to the alloy phases, and the bulk alloy had good density and without macroscopic defects. The mechanism of alloying and its effect on the mechanical behavior was discussed by investigating the microhardness of Fe-Co-Ni combinatorial alloy. Fe- and Ni-based alloys were solid solution and second phase strengthened, whereas Co-based alloy was two-phase solid solution strengthened. The strengthening effect of Ni was better than that of Co for Fe-based alloy. The strengthening effect of Fe was better than that of Co for Ni-based alloy. The strengthening effect of Ni was better than that of Fe for Co-based alloy.
Fig.1 Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) high-throughput synthesis process
Material
Designed mass
Analyzed mass
No.
system
ratio
fraction / %
Simple metal
Fe
Fe100.0
1
Fe-Ni
6Fe-1Ni
Fe85.7Ni14.3
2
3Fe-1Ni
Fe75.0Ni25.0
3
1Fe-1Ni
Fe49.5Ni50.5
4
1Fe-3Ni
Fe25.5Ni74.5
5
1Fe-6Ni
Fe15.2Ni84.8
6
Simple metal
Ni
Ni100.0
7
Ni-Co
6Ni-1Co
Ni84.3Co15.7
8
3Ni-1Co
Ni75.6Co24.4
9
1Ni-1Co
Ni51.6Co48.4
10
1Ni-3Co
Ni25.4Co74.6
11
1Ni-6Co
Ni15.0Co85.0
12
Simple metal
Co
Co100.0
13
Co-Fe
6Co-1Fe
Co84.9Fe15.1
14
3Co-1Fe
Co74.0Fe26.0
15
1Co-1Fe
Co48.4Fe51.6
16
1Co-3Fe
Co24.5Fe75.5
17
1Co-6Fe
Co14.1Fe85.9
18
FeCoNi
1Fe-1Co-1Ni
Fe33.8Co33.7Ni32.5
19
Table 1 Composition details of 19 Fe-Co-Ni alloys system
Fig.2 Composition distributions and intensities of Fe (a), Co (b), and Ni (c) in the combinatorial alloys
Fig.3 Two dimensional projections of combinatorial alloys via neutron imaging (a) and the gray value curve of neutron images with different compositions (b)
Fig.4 OM (a-i) and SEM (j-l) images of the combinatorial alloy
Fig.5 XRD spectra of the combinatorial alloys
Fig.6 Hardnesses of the combinatorial alloys
Fig.7 Contour map of relationship between composition and hardness in 19 combinatorial alloys
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