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The wetting of carbon by copper and copper alloys

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The effects of alloying additions on the wetting of two types of carbon, HX30 graphite and vitreous carbon, have been investigated, with a view to developing a system for metal impregnation of carbon fibre assemblies. Pure copper is inert and non-wetting but two additions caused the copper to wet: Cr on both substrates and V on the vitreous carbon only. Many of the additions formed a carbide reaction layer at the interface, and in the two wetting systems this was a thin, continuous, coherent layer. The data have been analysed in terms of the chemical and physical properties of the system and it was found that the wetting behaviour of copper alloys on HX30 graphite and vitreous carbon could be explained in terms of the behaviour of the reaction product carbides of the alloying addition when these existed.

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Mortimer, D.A., Nicholas, M. The wetting of carbon by copper and copper alloys. J Mater Sci 5, 149–155 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00554633

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