Method to generate and disperse nanostructures in a composite material
AssigneeBaker Hughes Incorporated
InventorsZhiyue Xu, Gaurav Agrawal
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Abstract
A method of making a nanostructure-reinforced composite comprises providing matrix particles in a reactor; fluidizing the matrix particles; introducing a nanostructure material into the reactor; homogeneously dispersing the nanostructure material; uniformly depositing the nanostructure material on the matrix particles to form a composite powder; generating a nanostructure on the matrix particles from the nanostructure material; and processing the composite powder to form the nanostructure-reinforced composite having a matrix formed from the matrix particles. The nanostructures are evenly distributed in the matrix of the nanostructure-reinforced composite.
Claims11
A method of making a nanostructure-reinforced composite comprising:
- providing matrix particles in a reactor, the matrix particles comprising a metal selected from magnesium, aluminum, titanium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, palladium, chromium, ruthenium, gold, silver, zinc, zirconium, vanadium, silicon, or a combination thereof;
- fluidizing the matrix particles;
- introducing a nanostructure material into the reactor;
- homogeneously dispersing the nanostructure material;
- uniformly depositing the nanostructure material on the matrix particles to form a composite powder;
- mechanically alloying the composite powder to generate a nanostructure on the matrix particles from the nanostructure material;
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- processing the composite powder to form the nanostructure-reinforced composite having a matrix formed from the matrix particles,
- wherein the nano structures are evenly distributed in the matrix of the nanostructure-reinforced composite.
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