Mechanical Properties of Titanium Nitride Nanocomposites Produced by Chemical Precursor Synthesis Followed by High-P,T Treatment

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1747-1762

  Bailey, Edward ^a   Ray, Nicole M T ^b   Hector, Andrew L ^c   Crozier, Peter ^b   Petuskey, William T ^b,d   McMillan, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High pressure; Metal nitrides; Microhardness; Nanocomposite materials; Nanoindentation; Synthesis; Ti3N4

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS/NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CHEMICAL PRECURSORS; CRYSTALLINE COMPONENTS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS VALUES; HIGH PRESSURE; METAL NITRIDES; MONOLITHIC CERAMICS; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; EXPERIMENTS; HARDNESS; MICROHARDNESS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICON CARBIDE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOINDENTATION;

EID: 84555163045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4101747     Document Type: Article

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