A method of manufacturing powder from a first and a second materials for use in additive manufacturing, the manufacturing process including melting the first and second materials by an electric arc; spraying the melted materials so as to form droplets; cooling the droplets by a carrier gas so as to form solid particles; separating the solid particles from the carrier gas and collecting the solid particles so as to form the powder; and enriching the droplets and/or the particles by an active substance.

According to one or more embodiments presently described, a mixture of lead oxide and lead metal particles may be formed by a method that includes forming a molten metal lead material from a solid lead metal supply material, introducing the molten metal lead material into a reaction zone of a reactor, and contacting the molten metal lead material with an oxidizing gas in the reaction zone to oxidize a portion of the molten metal lead material and form at least solid lead oxide particles and solid lead metal particles. The molten metal lead material may be introduced to the reaction zone in a laminar flow or as atomized molten particles. The weight ratio of formed solid lead oxide particles to solid lead metal particles may be less than 99:1.

A three-dimensional magnetic printer includes at least one induction head assembly including an induction heater to heat magnetic material to form an alloy melt and at least one nozzle operable to eject the alloy melt, a coating apparatus, and a base aligned with the at least one nozzle. The induction head assembly deposits at least one alloy melt layer and the coating apparatus forms at least one insulating layer onto the base in accordance with a predetermined pattern to form a three-dimensional article.

An atomization device for preparing metal alloy powder which includes a main body provided with an atomization chamber, the atomization chamber is provided with an inlet and an atomization zone, the inlet is configured to introduce metal alloy liquid; a high-pressure inert gas pipeline system that is configured to provide a high-pressure inert gas introduced into an atomization zone of the atomization chamber, to atomize the metal alloy liquid; and an oxygen-containing gas pipeline system that is configured to transfer oxygen-containing gas to the atomization zone.

A metal powder manufacturing device includes: an atomization tank; a crucible in which a molten metal is stored; a molten metal nozzle that allows the molten metal stored in the crucible to flow downward into the atomization tank; and a fluid spraying nozzle including a plurality of spraying holes that spray a fluid to an atomization tank side end part of the molten metal nozzle to pulverize a molten metal flow flowing downward from the molten metal nozzle. The molten metal nozzle includes a molten metal nozzle body and an orifice part having an inside diameter equal to or smaller than an inside diameter of the molten metal nozzle body, and a material of the orifice part is harder than a material of the molten metal nozzle body.

A method for printing a three-dimensional (3D) article is provided by the present disclosure. The method includes induction heating, by an induction head assembly, a magnetic material to form an alloy melt. The induction head assembly includes a nozzle and an induction heater that heats the magnetic material. The method further includes including the alloy melt from the nozzle onto a base, and tracing a predetermined pattern on the base with the alloy melt to form a three-dimensional article.

An alloy represented by the formula (Mn.sub.xAl.sub.y)C.sub.z, the alloy being aluminum (Al), manganese (Mn), and carbon (C), and optionally unavoidable impurities; wherein x=56.0 to 59.0 y=41.0 to 44.0 x+y=100, and z=1.5 to 2.4. The alloy is highly suitable for forming the and phase in high purity and high microstructural homogeneity. A method for processing an alloy of formula (Mn.sub.xAl.sub.y)C.sub.z, wherein x=52.0 to 59.0, y=41.0 to 48.0, x+y=100, and z=0.1 to 3.0, the process including providing the raw materials of the alloy, melting the raw materials, and forming particles of the alloy by gas atomization of the molten alloy.

An alloy represented by the formula (Mn.sub.xAl.sub.y)C.sub.z, the alloy being aluminum (Al), manganese (Mn), and carbon (C), and optionally unavoidable impurities; wherein x=56.0 to 59.0 y=41.0 to 44.0 x+y=100, and z=1.5 to 2.4. The alloy is highly suitable for forming the and phase in high purity and high microstructural homogeneity. A method for processing an alloy of formula (Mn.sub.xAl.sub.y)C.sub.z, wherein x=52.0 to 59.0, y=41.0 to 48.0, x+y=100, and z=0.1 to 3.0, the process including providing the raw materials of the alloy, melting the raw materials, and forming particles of the alloy by gas atomization of the molten alloy.

Provided is a method of preparing an alloy powder, comprising the steps of: melting the metal elements to produce the alloy solution; atomizing the alloy solution into small drops under oxygen-containing atmosphere; forcing the small drops to be quickly cooled under the driving of the atomizing flow to obtain the alloy powder; wherein, when the method is used to prepare CuInGa alloy powder, Cu/(In+Ga) is 0.5 to 1.1, In/(In+Ga) is 0.2 to 0.9, Ga/(In+Ga) is 0.1 to 0.8, In/(In+Ga)+Ga/(In+Ga) is 1. Also provided is an alloy powder and a method of preparing CuInGa alloy powder.

To provide an apparatus for producing a metal powder and a method of producing a metal powder capable of obtaining a metal powder having a finer particle size of excellent quality. A supersonic combustion flame is intensively injected into a downwardly supplied molten metal, the intensive combustion flame is jetted directly downwardly as a focused jet flow, the focused jet flow thrusts into a turning water flow formed along an inner peripheral surface of a pulverization cooling cylinder whose axis line is inclined from a vertical direction, and an intensive position of the combustion flame is in an open space above the turning water flow.