Fiber-containing composites

• US 9,493,909 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Liquidmetal Coatings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Liquidmetal Coatings, LLC
• Inventors: Kim, Choongnyun P., Kang, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Sellman, Cachet
• Application Number:
  US13/827,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20140030948A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,342 Days
• Field of Search: 427/331, 427/372.2, 428/307.3, 428/307.7, 442/229
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 1/18 performed by dipping
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 2256/00 Wires or fibres
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 70/885 with incorporated metallic wires, nets, films or plates as lost heating elements B29C35/0272, B29C61/0625
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 2200/02 Amorphous
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 47/08 by contacting the fibres or filaments with molten metal, e.g. by infiltrating the fibres or filaments placed in a mould C22C47/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 49/02 characterised by the matrix material
• CPC Class Codes: D01D 5/08 Melt spinning methods D01D5/0023 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 23/00 Treatment of fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, characterised by the process
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249957 Inorganic impregnant
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31678 Of metal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/339 Metal or metal-coated strand

Abstract

Provided in one embodiment is a method for producing a composition, comprising: heating a first material comprising an amorphous alloy to a first temperature; and contacting the first material with a second material comprising at least one fiber to form a composition comprising the first material and the second material; wherein the first temperature is higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature (T_g) of the amorphous alloy.

Claims

1. A method of producing a composition, the method comprising, weaving together at least one first fiber comprising a first material and at least one second fiber comprising a second material to form a woven material, wherein the first material comprises an amorphous alloy, and the second material comprises element carbon, silicon, boron, oxygen, or combinations thereof, further comprising at least partially infiltrating the first material at a first temperature into at least a portion of the second material to form the composition, wherein the composition comprises the amorphous alloy and the second material, and wherein the first temperature is higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature (T_g) of the amorphous alloy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first temperature is less than the crystallization temperature (T_x) of the amorphous alloy.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first temperature is greater than the crystallization temperature (T_x) of the amorphous alloy.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least partially infiltrating further comprises applying a pressure to the first material.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first temperature is lower than a melting temperature of the second material.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least partially infiltrating results in substantially no chemical interaction between the first material and the second material.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising heating the first material to the first temperature.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first material comprises zirconium, titanium, iron, copper, nickel, gold, platinum, palladium, aluminum, or combinations thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one first or second fiber comprises an amorphous alloy or the element carbon, silicon, boron, oxygen, or combinations thereof.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising producing the first material comprising an amorphous alloy.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising disposing a third material over at least a portion of the woven material.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the third material is the same as or different from the first material and the second material.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the third material comprises an amorphous alloy.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising weaving at least a third fiber comprising a third material with at least one of the first fiber and the second fiber to form the woven material comprising at least the first fiber, second fiber, and third fiber.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the third fiber comprises silicon carbide, glass, boron or combinations thereof.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising disposing a layer of a third material over at least a portion of the composition, wherein the third material is the same as or different from the first and second materials.