Resolving the sintering conundrum of high-rhenium tungsten alloys

doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2023.04.070

J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2023, Vol. 166: 78-85.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2023.04.070

Resolving the sintering conundrum of high-rhenium tungsten alloys

Zhongyou Que^a,1, Xingyu Li^a,1, Lin Zhang^a,b,*, Xuanhui Qu^a,*, Zichen Wei^a,chenguang Guo^a, Haishen Sun^a, Mingli Qin^a,b, Gang Chen^a,b, Peinan Du^c,*, Yanhao Dong^d,*

^aBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;
^bInstitute of Materials Intelligent Technology, Liaoning Academy of Materials, Shenyang 110004, China;
^cScience and Technology on Reactor Fuel and Materials Laboratory, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China;
^dState Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received:2023-02-05 Revised:2023-04-15 Accepted:2023-04-22 Published:2023-12-10 Online:2023-12-06
Contact: *E-mail addresses: zlin@ustb.edu.cn (L. Zhang), quxh@ustb.edu.cn (X. Qu), dupeinan@126.com (P. Du), dongyanhao@tsinghua.edu.cn (Y. Dong).
About author:1 These authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Abstract: Tungsten-rhenium (W-Re) alloys with high-Re contents are the preferred refractory metal materials in many applications because of the improved ductility and processability over pure W and low-Re tung-sten alloys. However, the sintering concurrently becomes increasingly more difficult with increasing Re contents. Here we proposed that the sintering conundrum is caused by the lowered crystal symmetry and the wider dihedral angle distribution when body-center-cubic (BCC) W is alloyed with more hexagonal-close-packed (HCP) Re, which results in inefficient pore removal in the final stage sintering. We showed that the conundrum can be resolved by pressureless two-step sintering (TSS) which suppresses acceler-ating final-stage grain growth, and our proposal is supported by the data of the critical density ρ_c that is required to start the second step for successful TSS at different W-Re compositions. Dense ultrafine-grained W-Re alloys with ∼300 nm average grain size and up to 25 wt% Re were successfully produced. Our work demonstrates the unique opportunities offered by two-step sintering to advance the scientific understanding and technological practices in powder metallurgy and related fields.

Key words: W-Re alloys, Two-step sintering, Grain growth, Ultrafine-grained materials

Zhongyou Que, Xingyu Li, Lin Zhang, Xuanhui Qu, Zichen Wei, Chenguang Guo, Haishen Sun, Mingli Qin, Gang Chen, Peinan Du, Yanhao Dong. Resolving the sintering conundrum of high-rhenium tungsten alloys[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2023, 166: 78-85.

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