Fabrication of nanocrystalline Mg 2Si via ball milling process: Structural studies

Powder Technology

Volumn 217, Issue , 2012, Pages 523-532

  Ioannou, M ^a   Hatzikraniotis, E ^b   Lioutas, Ch ^b   Hassapis, Th ^b   Altantzis, Th ^b   Paraskevopoulos, K M ^b   Kyratsi, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nanostructured; Size distribution; Thermoelectric materials

Indexed keywords

BALL MILLING PROCESS; BALL SIZE; CRYSTALLINE SIZE; DARK FIELD IMAGES; GRAIN SIZE; IR REFLECTIVITY; LOG-NORMAL; MEAN SIZE; MILLING PARAMETERS; MILLING TIME; N-HEXANE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PARTICLE SHAPE; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; PROCESS CONTROL AGENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SCHERRER EQUATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; WET BALL MILLING;

CRYSTALLITE SIZE; HEXANE; MILLING (MACHINING); MILLING MACHINES; NANOCRYSTALLINE POWDERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPHERES; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BALL MILLING;

HEXANE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; NANOCRYSTAL;

ARTICLE; BALL MILLING PROCESS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN (STRUCTURE); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCESSING;

EID: 84855233762     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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