The oxidation crack healing of Cr2AlC and Cr2(Al,Si)C was studied and compared with known healing of Ti2AlC. The oxidation induced crack healing of Ti2AlC is relatively fast and leads to full strength recovery, but the oxidation product contains besides -Al2O3 also undesired TiO2. However, when oxidizing Cr2AlC only -Al2O3 is formed, but full crack healing is relatively slow. The efficiency o...

Upon annealing cold-pressed Ti2AlC, -325 mesh powders, at 1500 °C for 8 h in argon, the resulting partially sintered sample contained 43(±2) wt.% of the layered ternary carbide Ti5Al2C3. Herein, the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of Ti5Al2C3 is reported for the first time. Its structure and stoichiometry are confirmed through high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. This phase has a ...

The prospect of extending existing metal-ceramic composites to those with the compositions that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium is examined. A current and pressure-assisted, rapid infiltration is proposed to fabricate composites, consisting of reactive metallic and ceramic phases with controlled microstructure and tunable properties. An aluminum (Al) alloy/Ti2AlC composite is selected as...

In this work, we demonstrate a simple and inexpensive way to fabricate porous Ti2AlC, one of the best studied materials from the MAX phase family, with controlled porosity and pore size. This was achieved by using NaCl as the pore former, which was dissolved after cold pressing but before pressureless sintering at 1400 C. Porous Ti2AlC samples with a volume fraction of porosity ranging from 10 ...

The expanded Ti2C MXene phase was synthesized from the commercial Ti2AlC MAX phase using classical acidic aluminium extraction method. The individual expanded Ti2C sheets were characterized by the diameters of between 26 and 61 nm and formed the specific network of slit-shaped pores in the size range of 3–5 nm. The BET specific surface area of expanded Ti2C was ca. 42% higher in comparison with...

Thermal explosion mode of combustion synthesis was used to fabricate TiAl-Al2O3 and TiAl-Ti2AlC-Al2O3 composites from elemental powder mixtures of TiO2, Al and C and characterized by XRD and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) coupled with Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS). The experimental results showed that thermite reaction of Al with TiO2 caused TiAl-Al2O3 composite formation. By adding ...

In situ synthesized TiB2-reinforced TiAl composites usually possess high strength. However, it is very expensive to use B powder to synthesize TiB2 particles. Moreover, the strength enhancement of TiB2/TiAl composite is generally at the cost of plasticity. In this study, in situ dual reinforcement TiB2-Ti2AlC/TiAl composites were fabricated by using B4C powder as the B and C source, which great...

A FIB/STEM interfacial study was performed on a TBC/Ti2AlC MAX phase system, oxidized in an aggressive burner rig test (Mach 0.3 at 1300 °C for 500 h). The 7YSZ TBC, α-Al2O3 TGO, and MAXthal 211TM Ti2AlC base were variously characterized by TEM/STEM, EDS, SADP, HRTEM. YSZ mix of “clean” featureless “faulted” high contrast grains. latter exhibited ferro-elastic domains Y content tetragonal t″ va...

We have explored the fabrication of Cu based Ti2AlC composite focusing on processing method and reaction which takes place at matrix-reinforcement interface to yield 2D TiCx. In due course consolidation Cu-Ti2AlC; formation TiCx via between by forming solid solution Al (CuAlx) was facilitated. This interfacial has been elaborated analyzed in light corroborated results.

MAX phase materials are emerging as attractive engineering materials in applications where the material is exposed to severe thermal and mechanical conditions in an oxidative environment. The Ti2AlC MAX phase possesses attractive thermomechanical properties even beyond a temperature of 1000 K. An attractive feature of this material is its capacity for the autonomous healing of cracks when opera...