Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-repairing metal alloy matrix composites, methods of manufacture and use thereof and articles comprising the same
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Application No.: US15318194Application Date: 2015-06-12
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Publication No.: US10597761B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Michele Viola Manuel , Charles Robert Fisher , Maria Clara Wright
- Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. , United States Of America As Represented By The Administrator Of The National Aeronautics And Space Administration
- Applicant Address: US FL Gainesville
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Gainesville
- Agency: Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2015/035458 WO 20150612
- International Announcement: WO2016/003627 WO 20160107
- Main IPC: C22C1/10
- IPC: C22C1/10 ; C22C21/02 ; C22F1/00 ; C22C21/14 ; B32B15/20 ; C22C1/04 ; C22C49/14 ; C22C49/06 ; B22D19/00 ; B22D21/00 ; B22F1/00 ; C22F1/043 ; C22F1/057
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a composite comprising a metal alloy matrix; where the metal alloy matrix comprises aluminum in an amount greater than 50 atomic percent; a first metal and a second metal; where the first metal is different from the second metal; and where the metal alloy matrix comprises a low temperature melting phase and a high temperature melting phase; where the low temperature melting phase melts at a temperature that is lower than the high temperature melting phase; and a contracting constituent; where the contracting constituent exerts a compressive force on the metal alloy matrix at a temperature between a melting point of the low temperature melting phase and a melting point of the high temperature melting phase or below the melting points of the high and low temperature melting phases.
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