Abstract
Sn–Ag binary powders of 2–5 wt%Ag were synthesized by mechanical alloying. Structural evolutions, morphologies, particle size distributions and melting points of the milled Sn–Ag powders were studied. The results show that the milled Sn–Ag powders consist of a supersaturated solid solution of Ag in Sn, Sn(Ag), and Ag 3Sn. During ball milling, Sn, Ag particles in the Sn–3.5Ag powders are deformed, overlapped and cold-welded together to form the Sn/Ag composite particles with a lamellar structure, and then the composite particles are fractured into small spherical particles. When increasing the Ag content from 2 to 5 wt%, the average particle sizes of the 60 h milled Sn–Ag powders are changed from 2.2 to 5.7 μm, and the morphologies of them are changed from spherical shape to irregular shape, respectively. It indicates that the cold-welding and agglomeration of the Sn–Ag powders increases with the Ag content during MA. The melting point of the 60 h milled Sn–3.5Ag powders was detected to be 224.23 °C, near to the eutectic point of the Sn–Ag binary system (221 °C).
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