Abstract: Particles of silicon and a p or n carrier substance which are in spherical or spheroidal form, and suitable for use in the preparation of doped semiconductor devices, can be prepared by a fluidized bed technique for chemical vapor deposition of a carrier substance (B, P, As or Sb). The prepared products have a kernel of high purity polysilicon and a layer of silicon/dopant alloy upon the kernel. Optionally, the particles have a thin outer layer of silicon.

Abstract: An improved powder composition of an iron-based powder and an alloying powder is provided. Segregation and dusting of the alloying powder is eliminated or substantially reduced when the powder composition contains a polymeric binding agent which is an adherent film-former and which is insoluble in water.

Abstract: A fine iron powder, being a carbonyl iron powder is electrolessly plated with an oxidatively resistant metallic coating. The coating is obtained from a bath containing nickel and copper salts. Oxidation resistance is improved at temperatures greater than 100.degree. C. Products containing these fine powders include liquids to provide increased oxidation resistance for coating a substrate, and articles formed by such powdered metals with or without other materials, such as ceramic or refractory materials.

Abstract: The invention provides a tin-containing iron base powder comprising iron base particulates each having tin-rich portions on the surface in which at least a part of the tin forms a compound with iron, wherein the total tin content ranges from 1 to 20% by weight of the powder. The invention also provides a process for making such a tin-containing iron base powder by mixing an iron base powder with a powder tin compound capable of generating metallic tin upon thermal decomposition, and heating the mixture to a temperature of 450.degree. to 700.degree. C. in a reducing or non-oxidizing atmosphere. Using this tin-containing iron base powder as a sintering material, there can be obtained sintered products having a high density and excellent magnetic properties.

Abstract: Sand is filtered from an oil flow from a sand-containing oil producing formation or interval of an oil well by passing the oil flow with entrained sand through a filter assembly containing filtering media in the form of a body of juxtaposed composite particles. Each composite particle has an iron-containing core surrounded by a continuous chromium cladding, the composite particles having a size to permit passage of the oil flow through the body of the composite particles while substantially preventing flow of sand therethrough.

Abstract: Metallic coated particles are disclosed which comprise a core consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of metals, metal alloys, ceramics, ceramic glasses, and a coating relatively uniformly distributed on the core. The coating consists essentially of a relatively ductile and/or malleable metallic material selected from the group consisting of metals and metal alloys. The process for producing the coated particles involves increasing the aspect ratio of the ductile and/or malleable material, and mechanically applying it to a powder material which is to be the core of the particles.

Abstract: Inorganic powders are coated with a thin film of an organic polymer formed on the individual particles by plasma polymerization. The film thickness may be not more than 100 .ANG., and the inorganic powders include magnetic ones.

Abstract: Particles of silicon and a p or n carrier substance which are in spherical or spheroidal form, and suitable for use in the preparation of doped semiconductor devices, can be prepared by a fluidized bed technique for chemical vapor deposition of a carrier substance (B, P, As or Sb). The prepared products have a kernel of high purity polysilicon and a layer of silicon/dopant alloy upon the kernel. Optionally, the particles have a thin outer layer of silicon.

Abstract: A process is described in which hollow spheres or hollow-sphere composites (moldings) having high-strength walls are produced. Additional layers are applied to metallized spherical lightweight particles having a core of foamed polymer. In order to increase the strength of the wall of the spherical particle and the strength of the molding, metallized lightweight spherical particles having a metal wall thickness of 5 to 20 microns are treated (coated) with a dispersion of particulate metal or metal oxide or particulate ceramic or refractory material, the lightweight spherical particles coated in a thickness from 15 to 500 microns are dried, the dried particles are heated to a temperature of about 400.degree. C. to effect a pyrolysis of the polymer core, and the particles are subsequently sintered at a temperature from 900.degree. to 1400.degree. C.

Abstract: Ceramic particles useful as abrasives in a metal matrix layer are described. The particles are coated with an oxide monolayer and a metal duplex layer. Preferably, the particles are silicon carbide; the oxide monolayer is aluminum oxide, and the metal duplex layer is a nickel-boron alloy over pure nickel.

Abstract: A ferrophosphorus composition with improved conductivity and passivation resistance is prepared by treating ferrophosphorus particles with an aqueous solution containing a dilute mineral acid and ions of chromium and a metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, strontium, calcium, barium, lead or copper. In a preferred embodiment, the concentration of chromium and zinc ions in the solution is in the range of about 2 grams/liter to about 10 grams/liter, and the treatment time is from about 2 to about 6 minutes.The treated ferrophosphorus particles can be formulated in a suitable resin binder for use as corrosion resistant coatings, weldable coatings, EMI shielding coatings or electrically conductive coatings. The treated ferrophosphorus particles can also be used in powder metallurgy applications.

Abstract: A thermal spray material has been developed that includes a composite powder comprising chromium carbide or chromium boride and copper or copper alloy in the form of kernels of the chromium carbide or boride clad with the copper or copper alloy. Preferably the thermal spray material includes a self-fluxing alloy composition.

Abstract: This invention discloses a compact of hydrogen adsorption alloy principally composed of a metal hydride in which all surfaces of fine particles of hydrogen adsorption alloy are completely coated with a dissimilar metal by plating, without effecting reactivity and a porous material of high thermal conductivity is infiltrated with the fine particles of alloy to be formed into a compact by compression molding.By this construction, it is possible to improve decline in the thermal conductivity or dropping of the fine particles out of cells of the porous material caused by micronization as a result of repeated uses of the hydrogen adsorption alloy are avoided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cermet material comprising a matrix of metal or alloy with ceramic particles distributed therein. The cermet includes a glass binder for bonding between the metal or alloy and the ceramic particles.

Abstract: This invention provides a shaped, graded, cermet article comprising at least one continuous ceramic phase and at least one discontinuous metal phase, the ratio of ceramic/metal being controlled and varied over the thickness of the article. The ceramic phase preferably is microcrystalline.

Abstract: A porous, sintered powdered metal article having excellent corrosion resistance is provided. A porous metal such as prepared from a sintered iron powder and suitable for further treatment is phosphatized with a solvent phosphatizing composition. The phosphatized metal is then coated with a chromium-containing coating composition. The thus treated powdered metal part may be further topcoated and, in either case, exhibits outstanding corrosion resistance.

Abstract: A zirconium alloy having a plateau region of equilibrium hydrogen dissociation pressure and a small hysteresis, whose hydrogen dissociation pressure is in a range of 0.6 to 3 atm at 20.degree. C., 1 to 5 atm at 40.degree. C., and 1 to 17 atm at 80.degree. C., the activation of which can be effected according to a single procedure of vacuum evacuation at room temperature and pressurization under a hydrogen pressure of 30 atm at room temperature, and which is comparable or superior in the rates of hydrogen absorption and release, the maximum hydrogen absorbing capacity and effective hydrogen releasing capacity to conventional zirconium alloys. A hydrogen absorbing and releasing material comprising an alloy as mentioned above and thin films of one element selected from Pd, Cu, and Ni, which allows only hydrogen to permeate, and covering the surfaces of particles of the alloy.

Abstract: As the raw material of a ferrous sintered alloy, a ferrous composite powder excellent in both compressibility and distribution of alloying elements is obtained by mixing an iron powder or a Sn-free low-alloy iron powder with at least one secondary powder comprising at least one of C, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, P and Si and another powder comprising Sn and heating the powder mixture in a nonoxidizing atmosphere at 250.degree.-900.degree. C. to result in that the secondary powder(s) is at least partially bonded to the iron particles with Sn as a sort of cementing medium. In the powder mixture the content of Sn is 0.1-20 wt %, and the weight ratio of the secondary powder(s) to Sn is not greater than 50:1. Also disclosed is a ferrous sintered magnetic material high in magnetic flux density and small in iron loss, which contains 1-12 wt % of Si, 0.05-7 wt % of Sn and, optionally, 0.05-2 wt % of P and in which Sn concentrates on the surfaces of iron particles.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cermet having high toughness and high hardness, which exhibits excellent impact resistance and wear resistance when used in cutting tools. A mixed powder is prepared which consists essentially of: titanium nitride, from 25 to 50 percent by weight; titanium carbide, from 10 to 30 percent by weight; at least one selected from the group consisting of tantalum carbide, niobium carbide, and zirconium carbide, from 5 to 25 percent by weight; tungsten carbide, from 10 to 25 percent by weight; and at least one selected from the group consisting of Co and Ni, and Al if required, from 7.5 to 25 percent by weight in total. The above mixed powder is compressed into a green compact. The green compact is sintered in a nitrogen atmosphere under a pressure within a range from 0.1 to 100 torr, and at a temperature within a range from 1400.degree. to 1550.degree. C.

Abstract: A process for producing a nickel-chromium/chromium carbide coating on a substrate comprises flame spraying nickel/chromium carbide composite powder onto the substrate to cause burnout of some of the carbon in the carbide during spraying with the result that some of the chromium becomes alloyed with the nickel. The nickel/chromium carbide composite powder comprises particles each having a core of chromium carbide at least partially coated with nickel, and the coating comprises chromium carbide particles in a matrix of nickel-chromium alloy.

Abstract: A compacted powdered iron core utilizes iron powder in the 0.002 to 0.006 mean particle size range which is firt coated with an alkali metal silicate and then overcoated with a silicone resin polymer. The treated powder is compressed to approximately 94% of theoretical density and then annealed at approximately 600.degree. C. This results in a core component characterized by overall core losses as low as in conventional laminated cores in A.C. operation.

Abstract: A process for the production of depleted uranium metal particles comprising heating depleted uranium metal to red heat, rapidly chilling the heated metal, grinding the resulting brittlized metal to form powder size particles, annealing the particles and coating the particles with silver, copper, or lead, wherein the grinding and annealing are carried out in an inert argon atmosphere. The invention also contemplates the resulting depleted uranium metal powder, compositions containing the same as well as the liners for shaped charges formed therefrom.

Abstract: A porous, metallurgically bonded, heat-ballasted hydridable mixture in pellet form wherein the solid ingredients comprise about 40 vol. % or less of a hydridable metal or alloy and about 60 vol. % or more of a ballast metal powder from the group consisting of nickel, copper, iron and aluminum.

Abstract: Hollow metal microspheres are made from film forming metal compositions and are used to make superior high strength light weight structures, improved insulating materials and insulating systems, or the microspheres can be used as filler materials in plastics, in plastic foam compositions, in rubber and rubber compositions and in metal compositions. A thin metal coating can be deposited on the inner wall surface of the microspheres. The hollow metal microspheres can also be made in the form of filamented metal microspheres in which a thin metal filament connects adjacent microspheres. The microspheres are characterized by being free of latent solid or liquid blowing gas materials or gases and the walls of the microspheres are substantially free of holes, relatively thin walled portions or sections and bubbles. Masses of the hollow microspheres and shaped forms of or containing the hollow microspheres are also described.

Abstract: An acoustical transducer is provided with an acoustically absorbant backing material having an acoustical impedance precisely matching the impedance of the piezoelectric element in the transducer. The backing material is a multiphase mixture of selected materials, such as a low melting point alloy (InPb) and one or more powders having high impedance characteristics (tungsten and copper). The slope of the curve impedance versus volume fraction of the backing components is low, thus allowing the impedance of the material to be precisely controlled. The backing material is preferably electrically conductive and is fuzed to one surface of the piezoelectric element to further improve the output characteristics of the transducer.

Abstract: A thermal spray composite is disclosed, comprised of a base constituent formed from at least one of the base metals nickel, iron and cobalt, and at least one of the modifying elements chromium and aluminum, plus individual constituents aluminum, cobalt and, optionally, molybdenum. In a preferred form, the composite is a powder having an alloy core of the base metal and the modifying element, the core having fine particles of the individual elements secured thereto with a binder. The process of thermal spraying the composite is also disclosed, and the resulting coatings have a high degree of high temperature corrosion resistance and tenacity compared to prior art thermal sprayed coatings.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for preparing a coated powder comprising the steps of adding a carbon powder and an aluminum nitride powder to a methylsilicic acid powder or a precursor of the methylsilicic acid and mixing them and then subjecting the resulting mixed powder to a heat treatment in an atmosphere including an inert gas or a carbon component-containing gas in order to coat the aluminum nitride powder with silicon carbide.This invention provides a chemically stable coated powder and a sintered body obtained by employing the coated powder has a good thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A composite is provided which is adaptable to be a substrate for an electronic application. The composite comprises first material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about -20.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. Second material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 100.times.10.sup.-7 to about 200.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. are mixed with the first material particles. A bonding agent adheres the first and second material particles into a coherent composite having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C.

Abstract: Metal matrix composite materials are formed from a reinforcing, submicron-particle material, such as SiC, which is not easily wettable by a matrix metal, such as Al, and therefore cannot be uniformly dispersed in the matrix because the particles agglomerate. A coating 12 of material, such as Si, easily wettable by the matrix metal, is placed on the surface of the particles 10 before mixing the reinforcing particles in the matrix metal.

Abstract: A plasma spray powder comprising a uniform powder blend of silicon nitride and a plasma meltable metal produces a coating having some of the properties of silicon nitride.

Abstract: An unbalanced multiple layer polymeric film having good interfacial adhesions has a first molecularly oriented polymeric surface layer of nylon on one surface thereof, and a second molecularly oriented polymeric surface layer of a heat sealable ethylene-based polymer or copolymer on the other surface thereof. Films are disclosed having interior functional layers of EVOH and HDPE, along with adhesive polymers selected for good interfacial adhesion after orientation of the film in the machine direction. Processes for making and orienting the films are also disclosed.

Abstract: A heterogenous powder comprising particles of tungsten grains with a diameter of less than 1 .mu.m with a binder sponge-like coating of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, copper, silver, iron, cobalt, molybdenum and rhenium with a particle diameter of 10 to 50 .mu.m, a process for the preparation thereof, method of forming sintered elements therefrom and the elements produced thereby being useful as penetrating projectiles.

Abstract: A metal powder containing particles of iron or steel and particles of an alloying element is apt to segregation and dusting. It has now been found that segregation and dusting can be reduced or eliminated if the powder contains a binding agent in solid or liquid state. It is preferred to add to the metal powder one of the agents polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, glycerine, and polyvinyl alcohol, in a quantity of 0.005-0.2 percent by weight.

Abstract: A method is provided for coating magnesium granules with a fluoride-containing salt comprising contacting the granules with at least one fluoride-containing salt selected from the group consisting of alkali and alkaline earth metal fluorides and fluoborates and thereby produce a fluoride-containing coating on the surface of the granules. The coating is characterized in that the oxidation of the magnesium granules is greatly inhibited during the use of the granules as an addition agent to a molten metal bath, for example, when used in the desulfurization of steel.

Abstract: Tungsten carbide and nickel-phosphorus alloy coexist in individual particles. The composite powder produced by a mechanical mix of these two substances consists of 30.about.95 percent by weight of tungsten carbide and valanced nickel-phosphorus alloy. This powder is sprayed to the ferrous base material, resulting in a uniform dispersion of both tungsten carbide and nickel-phosphorus, causing tight adhesion to the surface because the tungsten carbide and nickel-phosphorus alloy coexist in individual particles in the composite. A hard metal coating is produced having high hardness and excellent wear resistance, after the surface of the hard metal coating is heated and the high temperature of the nickel-phosphorus alloy causes a liquid phase under the condition of a nonoxidizing atmosphere. This hard metal coating is used for various kinds of the wear-resistant materials.

Abstract: In a composite material of metal and ceramic, the excellent properties of metal and ceramic are combined, so that, when the composite material is flame sprayed, a flame sprayed coating having good mechanical strength and heat- corrosion- and wear-resistance can be obtained. Conventional composite material, in which metal and ceramic are merely mixed or mechanically bonded with one another, cannot provide a plasma sprayed coating having a high bonding strength to the substrate. The present invention improves the plasma spraying composite material by means of a chemical bond between the metal and ceramic parts. The chemical bond may be a compound-or solid solution formation between these parts. The core of the composite material is ZrO.sub.2 and the coating is a metal, metallic compound or combination thereof.

Abstract: Electromagnetic energy shielding material in forms such as form stable gaskets, caulking compounds, coatings, adhesives, etc., the material being composed of a plastic binder and electrically conductive particles having an aluminum core, a first metallic layer thereover e.g., of tin and a silver outer layer.

Abstract: An improved metal coated abrasive is prepared with a controlled, rough textured surface, which surface has improved adherence to resinous materials when said coated abrasives are incorporated into resin bonded tools. Disclosed is a process for achieving this rough texture through a modification to the known electroless or autocatalytic techniques for coating abrasives with metals such as copper and nickel. The improvement comprises: interrupting the electroless coating process by passivating the surface one or more times; and then reactivating the passivated surface each time with a catalytic material whereby an array of preferential sites for metal deposition is obtained; and resuming normal electroless coating.

Abstract: A high density shot made of a cold-compacted mixture of at least two metal powders, a first one of such powders more dense than lead and a second one of such being flowable under compaction to serve as a binder. The shot has an extended range as compared to conventional lead shot.

Abstract: Hollow metal microspheres are made by forming a liquid film of molten film forming metal composition across a coaxial blowing nozzle and applying a blowing gas at a positive pressure on the inner surface of the metal film to blow the film and form an elongated cylinder shaped liquid film of molten metal. An inert entraining fluid is directed over and around the blowing nozzle at an angle to the axis of the blowing nozzle so that the entraining fluid dynamically induces a pulsating or fluctuating pressure field at the opposite side of the blowing nozzle in the wake of the coaxial blowing nozzle. The continued movement of the entraining fluid produces asymmetric fluid drag forces on the cylinder and closes and detaches the elongated cylinder from the coaxial blowing nozzle. Surface tension forces acting on the detached cylinder form the latter into a spherical shape which is rapidly cooled and solidified by cooling means to form a hard, smooth hollow metal microsphere.

Abstract: By pouring a solution containing hydrolyzable tin and antimony salts into an aqueous dispersion of titanium oxide particles and mixing, the salts are caused to hydrolyze, whereby a uniform and strongly adherent coating layer of antimony-containing tin oxide is formed on the surface of each particle of the titanium oxide. The coated powder thus obtained is non-hygroscopic and non-toxic and exhibits stable electroconductivity. Furthermore, since it can possess excellent whiteness, it is suitable for forming the electroconductive layers of electro-thermosensitive papers and electrostatic recording papers, for use as the antistatic agent of resins, and for other uses.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a clear, flexible, coated, biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a polyester film support and a radiation curable silicone coating on at least a portion of the support. The radiation curable silicone coating is derived from a dispersion of colloidal silica in an alcohol-water solution of the partial condensate of specified silanols and multifunctional acrylate monomers and oligomers with optional photoinitiators.

Abstract: A multilayer-coated composite powder is produced by a first step of treating a core powder to be coated with first metallic ions and a metallic powder for reducing the first ions and thereby forming a single-layer coated powder, and a second step of treating the single-layer-coated powder with either only second metallic ions other than the first metallic ions or the second ions in the presence of a metallic powder for reducing the second ions. Where necessary, the second step is repeated the number of times required for forming a predetermined number of coating layers.

Abstract: In the process for preparing a magnetically stable powder comprising the steps of reducing an iron oxide precursor with a gaseous reduction agent and stabilizing the metallic powder thus produced, the improvement which comprises coating said iron oxide precursor with an antimony compound at a level of up to about 7 weight percent antimony based on the weight of the iron oxide content of the precursor and precipitating tin hydroxides or oxyhydroxides at a level of from about 0.5 to about 8.0 weight percent tin based on the weight of the iron oxide content of the precursor onto the antimony coated iron oxide precursor prior to said reduction.

Abstract: A composition is provided for marking hot metal objects, which may be moving e.g. steel bar emerging from a rolling mill. The composition is in powder form and comprises a major weight proportion of refractory pigment and a fusible adhesion agent therefor. For marking, the composition may be applied in a carrier gas, optionally through a stencil, to the surface of the object and allowed to adhere there. Clear, durable markings are obtainable.

Abstract: An anode comprising a porous sintered body made of tantalum powder each particle of which having a layer of at least one of V, Mo and Pd. This anode permits a solid electrolytic capacitor to have a low reverse current and a low leakage current. This invention also provides an effective method for preparing such anode.

Abstract: Supercorroding magnesium alloys that operate like galvanic cells and react apidly and predictably with seawater to produce heat and hydrogen gas. The alloys are formed by a mechanical process that bonds magnesium and noble metal powder particles together in a strong electrical and mechanical bond. The alloy powders can be compacted and sintered to form barstock, etc., suitable for making self-destructing corroding links.

Abstract: A double-metal-coated metal sulfide powder comprises particles of a metal sulfide, a layer of a platinum group metal coating formed thereon, and an outer coating layer of a metal or alloy which contains at least one of iron, copper, nickel, and cobalt. The powder is obtained by forming a platinum group metal layer on metal sulfide particles by thermal decomposition of a plating composition which includes at least one platinum-metal compound containing a radical selected from the class consisting of NO, NO.sub.2, NO.sub.3, and NOCl and then forming a layer of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of iron, copper, nickel, and cobalt by the cementation reaction.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing radiation shield structures of the type consisting of neutron absorbing boron carbide particles embedded in a copper matrix. The material comprises a multiplicity of particles comprising a core of boron carbide, a film of electroless copper bonded to the carbide, and a relatively thick electrodeposited copper layer bonded to the film. The particles are then consolidated to produce shield structures by hot rolling or hot pressing, with or without sintering.

Abstract: A composite is provided which is adaptable to be a substrate for an electronic application. The composite comprises first material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about -20.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. Second material particles having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 100.times.10.sup.-7 to about 200.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C. are mixed with the first material particles. A bonding agent adheres the first and second material particles into a coherent composite having a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.-7 to about 50.times.10.sup.-7 in/in/.degree.C.