Jm. Criado et al., INFLUENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERE CONTROL DURING THE GRINDING OF TITANIUM POWDER ON ITS REACTIVITY TOWARDS THE CONVERSION INTO TITANIUM NITRIDE, Solid state ionics, 101, 1997, pp. 1387-1391
A grinding vial has been developed to be used with a high grinding ene
rgy swinging mill under the pressure of selected gases. This tool has
been used for the study of titanium with nitrogen gas. Nanometric tita
nium nitride with a crystallite size around 10 nm has been obtained. A
mechanism for the mechanochemical conversion of titanium into titaniu
m nitride has been proposed.