Obtenção de titânio metálico com porosidade controlada por metalurgia do pó Porous titanium production and porosity control by powder metallurgy (P/M)

• Main Authors: Neila de Almeida Braga, Neidenêi Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Alberto Alves Cairo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2007-04-01
• Series: Química Nova
• Subjects: titanium; powder-metallurgy; porous
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422007000200037

<abstract language="eng">Titanium is an attractive material for structural and biomedical applications because of its excellent corrosion resistance, biocompatibility and high strength-to-weight ratio. The high reactivity of titanium in the liquid phase makes it difficult to produce it by fusion. Powder metallurgy has been shown to be an adequate technique to obtain titanium samples at low temperatures and solid-phase consolidation. The production of compacts with different porosities obtained by uniaxial pressing and vacuum sintering is briefly reviewed. Powder particle size control has been shown to be very important for porosity control. Sample characterization was made using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images.