Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing

  • Ting-Chiang Lin,
  • Chezheng Cao,
  • Maximilian Sokoluk,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Julie M. Schoenung,
  • Enrique J. Lavernia,
  • Xiaochun Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12047-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Incorporating and dispersing dense nanoparticles into metals remains a challenge. Here, the authors use nanocomposite powders containing very dense nanoparticles to print an aluminium nanocomposite with one of the highest specific modulus and yield strength among all structural materials.