Soldering of Carbon Materials Using Transition Metal Rich Alloys

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• 作者：Marek Burda ; Agnieszka Lekawa-Raus ; Andrzej Gruszczyk ; Krzysztof K. K. Koziol
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 25, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9
• 期：8
• 页码：8099-8107
• 全文大小：767K
• ISSN：1936-086X

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Joining of carbon materials via soldering has not been possible up to now due to lack of wetting of carbons by metals at standard soldering temperatures. This issue has been a severely restricting factor for many potential electrical/electronic and mechanical applications of nanostructured and conventional carbon materials. Here we demonstrate the formation of alloys that enable soldering of these structures. By addition of several percent (2.5鈥?%) of transition metal such as chromium or nickel to a standard lead-free soldering tin based alloy we obtained a solder that can be applied using a commercial soldering iron at typical soldering temperatures of approximately 350 掳C and at ambient conditions. The use of this solder enables the formation of mechanically strong and electrically conductive joints between carbon materials and, when supported by a simple two-step technique, can successfully bond carbon structures to any metal terminal. It has been shown using optical and scanning electron microscope images as well as X-ray diffraction patterns and energy dispersive X-ray mapping that the successful formation of carbon鈥搒older bonds is possible, first, thanks to the uniform nonreactive dispersion of transition metals in the tin-based matrix. Further, during the soldering process, these free elements diffuse into the carbon鈥揳lloy border with no formation of brazing-like carbides, which would damage the surface of the carbon materials.