Innovative Processing to Produce Advanced Intermetallic     Materials
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There is an insatiable demand for high temperature, light weight,               strong and ductile materials in heat engine and structural                      applications.  Intermetallics such as titanium aluminide offer a                significant opportunity for improved high temperature properties                over current state-of-the-art nickel base superalloys and                       titanium alloys.  However, titanium aluminide base materials with               substantially improved ductility, strength, oxidation and creep                 resistance have not been fully developed.  Grain refining, micro-               and macroalloying and reinforcing of titanium aluminide                         intermetallics are innovative approaches to improve the high                    temperature properties of titanium aluminide.  This program will                utilize a rf thermal plasma technique to synthesize ultrafine and               ultrapure titanium aluminide powders.  The production mechanism                 is aluminum reduction of titanium tetrachloride in an argon high                temperature plasma.  Micro- and macroalloying of titanium                       aluminide will also be carried out in the plasma reactor                        simultaneously with the synthesis of titanium aluminide powders.                Reinforced titanium aluminide composites will also be                           investigated.  A titanium aluminide base alloy and composite with               improved ductility and high temperature properties will result                  from this program.
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{'Code': '5371', 'Text': 'SBIR Phase I'}
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