A Study of the Kinetics and Energetics of Solid State Reactions in Pd/Sn Diffusion Couples

1995 ◽  
Vol 398 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.R. Chromik ◽  
E. J. Cotts

ABSTRACTUsing differential scanning calorimetry, supplemented by measurements from scanning electron microscopy images, we have investigated solid state reactions in Pd/Sn multilayer composites to form PdSn4 and PdSn3. Planar diffusion couples of Pd and Sn were prepared by means of mechanical co-deformation in a rolling mill. A phase formation sequence was determined using differential scanning calorimetry and x-ray diffraction. Growth of the PdSru phase was studied from room temperature to the melting point of Sn. For temperatures between 430 and 460K diffusion limited growth of PdSn4 was observed. From heat flow data over this limited temperature range, the form of the reaction constant was found to be k2 −k0 exp(−Ea / kbT), where k0= 0.16 cm2/s and Εn= 0.8 eV/atom. Also determined was a heat of formation, ΔHf = −27±1 kJ/mol for PdSn4 from Pd and Sn.

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Martelli ◽  
G. Mazzone ◽  
M. Vittori-Antisari

Solid state reactions between Ni and Sn at two compositions, Ni75Sn25 and Ni60Sn40, have been induced by means of near room temperature cold rolling and mechanical alloying. The reaction steps have been monitored by x-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. At both compositions, the first effect of plastic deformation is the formation of two metastable phases which, by further milling or low temperature thermal treatment, transform into the Ni3Sn4 compound. The chemical composition of the metastable phases has been determined to be close to that of Ni3Sn4 and the crystal structure of one of them appears to be related to that of β–Sn. Differential scanning calorimetry and thermal treatment of samples containing the metastable phases have shown that these phases transform into Ni3Sn4 at about 150 °C and that no other reaction takes place up to this temperature. Upon prolonged milling, a different behavior has been observed for the two compositions. While the Ni60Sn40 mixture eventually forms the Ni3Sn2 compound in agreement with previous results, the final product of mechanically alloying the Ni75Sn25 mixture is a phase whose structure, rather than amorphous as previously hypothesized, in our case can be described as based on that of the disordered high temperature form of the Ni3Sn compound. Differential scanning calorimetry and x-ray diffraction analysis of this sample have shown the formation, at 380 °C, of ordered Ni3Sn with an associated heat release of about 10 kJ/mole.


1997 ◽  
Vol 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Chromik ◽  
W. K. Neils ◽  
E. J. Cotts

ABSTRACTThe kinetics of the formation of Cu3Si in Cu/a-Si diffusion couples have been investigated by means of differential scanning calorimetry and x-ray diffraction. Multilayered composites of average stoichiometry Cu3Si were prepared by sputter deposition with individual layer thicknesses varying in different samples between 2 and 100 nm. We observed diffusion limited growth of Cu3 Si upon annealing these diffusion couples below 500 K. Reaction constants were measured for a temperature range of 455 to 495 K for thicknesses of growing Cu3Si between 2.6 and 80 nm. The temperature dependence of the reaction constant, k2, was characterized as k2 = k0 exp(− Ea/kbT) with activation energy, Ea = 1.0 eV/atom and pre-factor, k0 = 1.9×10−3 cm2/s.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (09) ◽  
pp. 1137-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. VERDIAN ◽  
M. SALEHI ◽  
K. RAEISSI

Amorphous/nanocrystalline 50 Ni –50 Ti powders were synthesized from elemental Ti and Ni powders by solid state synthesis utilizing low energy mechanical alloying with times up to 100 h. The produced powders were investigated by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry to study phase transformations that occurred during heating in the calorimeter. It was found that at the first stage of the heating process, a disordered NiTi phase was formed at temperature of about 400°C. Further investigations indicated that this phase transformed into the Ni 3 Ti and Ti 2 Ni intermetallic compounds after heating at a temperature of about 800°C.


1988 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Smeaton ◽  
George Burns

AbstractThe Tomb of Nefertari, no. 66, Valley of the Queens, is an internationally known monument of historic and artistic importance; it is considere d one of the most beautiful of the Royal Egyptian tombs. The fragility of its plaster along with its ubiquitous sodium chloride crystals and microcrystals have complicated its conservation and restoration. In order to determine the optimum pathway for its conservation, the physicochemical processes which occur now in this Tomb must be well understood. To improve this understanding, samples of plaster taken from the Tomb have been analyzed using Differential Scanning Calorimetry and X-ray Diffraction and have been shown to be fully dehydrated; previous findings suggest that this is not the case in all contemporary Royal tombs. Although we are not aware of any kinetic study of gypsum dehydration in the solid state, the presence of anhydrite in the Tomb of Nefertari suggests that the CaSO4 ·2H2O → CaSO4 + 2H2O reaction is catalyzed. It is reasoned that finely-dispersed sodium chloride crystals act as effective catalysts in this reaction.


1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (0) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Glauce ZAINA CHIARETTO ◽  
Marco Aurélio da Silva CARVALHO FILHO ◽  
Nedja Suely FERNANDES ◽  
Massao IONASHIRO

Solid state compounds of general formula ML2.nH2O [where M is Mg, Ca, Sr or Ba; L is cinnamate (C6H5 -CH=CH-COO-) and n = 2, 4, 0.8, 3 respectively], have been synthetized. Thermogravimetry (TG), derivative thermogravimetry (DTG), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction powder patterns have been used to characterize and to study the thermal stability and thermal decomposition of these compounds.


1995 ◽  
Vol 398 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. K. Neils ◽  
R. R. Chromik ◽  
K. F. Dreyer ◽  
D. Grosman ◽  
E. J. Cotts

ABSTRACTWe find differential scanning calorimetry to be suitable for the characterization of the energetics and kinetics of interdiflusion in solder/metal diffusion couples. Differential scanning calorimetry studies of interdiffusion in Cu/Cu6Sn5 diffusion couples have shown that the driving force for interdiffusion is similar for thin film composites and for bulk diffusion couples. The heat of formation of Cu3Sn from Cu6Sn5 and Cu thin films was found to be ΔHr = −4.3 + 0.3 kJ/mol. Portions of our differential scanning calorimetry scans are identified with diffusion limited growth of Cu3Sn. From these calorimetry data we have estimated D(cm2 / s) = Do exp(−E / kbT), where kb is Boltzmann's constant, D0 = 3.2 × 10–2 cm2/s, and E=0.87 eV/atom.


1989 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. White ◽  
M. E. Patt ◽  
E. J. Cotts

AbstractDifferential scanning calorimetry and x-ray diffraction analysis were utilized to monitor solid state reactions in mechanically deformed Ni/Ti multilayered composites. Solid state reactions at temperatures less than = 650 K result in the formation of a highly disordered phase which is apparently amorphous.The subsequent nucleation and growth at higher temperatures of intermetallic compounds from the amorphous phase is examined. The relatively small thickness of amorphous material (less than 100 Å) which can be grown by solid state reaction in our Ni/Ti samples, combined with the indication that a disordered interface such as that produced by mechanical deformation facilitates these reactions in the Ni-Ti system, may provide some explanation for the relatively high degree of success experienced in the production of amorphous Ni- Ti by means of ball milling. Comparisons are made to results obtained in the Ni-Zr system.


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