A method includes applying a material coating to a surface of a machine component, wherein the material coating is formed from a combination of a hardfacing material, aluminum-containing particles, and a braze material. The method also includes thermally treating the material coating at a temperature to generate an oxide layer comprising aluminum from the aluminum-containing particles, wherein the oxide layer is configured to reduce oxidation of the hardfacing material, and the braze material is configured to facilitate binding between the material coating and the surface of the machine component.

A process is disclosed for producing a magnetocaloric composite material for a heat exchanger. The process comprises the following steps: Providing (S110) a plurality of particles (110) of a magnetocaloric material in a shaped body (200) and immersing the plurality of particles (110) present in the shaped body (200) into a bath in order to coat the particles by a chemical reaction and bond them to one another.

The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a powder material and an application thereof. The preparation method includes: obtaining an initial alloy ribbon including a matrix phase and a dispersed particle phase by solidifying an alloy melt, and then removing the matrix phase in the initial alloy ribbon while retaining the dispersed particle phase, so as to obtain a powder material composed of original dispersed particle phase. The preparation method of the present disclosure is simple in process and can prepare multiple powder materials of nano-level, sub-micron-level and micro-level. The powder materials have good application prospects in the fields such as catalytic materials, powder metallurgy, composite materials, wave-absorbing materials, sterilization materials, metal injection molding, 3D printing and coating.

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for printing three-dimensional (3D) objects. A composition for 3D printing may comprise a polymeric precursor configured to form a polymeric material, wherein the polymeric material is configured to decompose at a first temperature. The composition may further comprise a photoinitiator configured to initiate formation of the polymeric material from the polymeric precursor when exposed to photoradiation. The composition may further comprise a plurality of particles comprising a first metal. The composition may further comprise a soluble metallic precursor compound configured to react at a second temperature to form a plurality of nanoparticles comprising a second metal capable of alloying with the first metal.

An interlayered structure for joining of dissimilar materials, includes a first material substrate, a second material substrate having a composition dissimilar from a composition of the first material substrate, and a plurality of interlayers disposed between the first material substrate and the second material substrate, including a first interlayer nearest to the first material substrate and a last interlayer nearest to the second material substrate. The first interlayer has a composition selected to have a maximum solid solubility within the composition of the first material substrate that is greater than or equal to the other interlayers' solubility within the composition of the first material substrate. The last interlayer has a composition selected to have a maximum solid solubility within the composition of the second material substrate that is greater than or equal to the other interlayers' solubility within the composition of the second material substrate. At least one of the plurality of interlayers is a sintered powder interlayer.

A powder material includes: an atomized powder of an Ni-based alloy containing inclusions, in which a number of particles of the contained inclusions is 100 particles or less per 10,000 particles of the atomized powder. The Ni-based alloy may include at least one additive element selected from Al, Ti and Nb, and the inclusions include at least one of oxide and carbonitride of the additive element.

Provided are: a method for producing an alloy member that is fabricated by additive manufacturing and has increased mechanical strength and ductility as well as higher corrosion resistance; and the alloy member produced from this method. The alloy member production method comprises: an additive manufacturing step for forming products by additive manufacturing using an alloy powder including each of Co, Cr, Fe, Ni, and Ti in the range of 5-35 atom % and Mo in the range of greater than 0 atom % and 8 atom % or less, the balance comprising unavoidable impurities; a heat treatment step for raising a temperature of the products through heating, and holding the products in the temperature range of 1080-1180° C.; and a forced cooling step for cooling the products after the heat treatment in the temperature range from the holding temperature to 800° C. at a cooling rate of 110-2400° C./min.

A method for joining two or more metallic components. The method includes operating a cold-spray apparatus to deposit a feedstock comprising nickel-based alloy particles on a braze region of a first metallic component to form a nickel-containing coating on the braze region. The method also includes brazing the first metallic component and a second metallic component by exposing the braze region to a braze material to form a braze joint that bonds the first metallic component to the second metallic component.

Provided is a brazing filler material for bonding iron-based sintered member that includes a sintered compact containing Cu, Mn, and a remainder of Ni and unavoidable impurities, and an oxide film formed on a surface of the sintered compact. An oxygen concentration may account for not less than 0.1% by mass of a total amount of the brazing filler material. The oxide film may contain Mn.

A selective laser melting technology-based apparatus for preparing a gradient material, comprising a laser scanning array lens, and a powder storer, a powder mixer, a powder scraping plate, and a working platform that are provided in sequence from top to bottom; the powder storer is provided with two or more partitions; a bottom portion of the powder storer is provided with an outlet; the powder mixer is provided under the powder storer and is a horizontally provided rotational mixer; the powder scraping plate is disposed under the powder mixer; the working platform is provided under the powder scraping plate; the laser scanning array lens is provided on the working platform. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing a gradient material, comprising powder storing, powder scraping, powder mixing, powder laying, and printing. The method can guarantee the two-phase powder ratio in each layer of powder not change.