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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2018
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Eck Industries Incorporated, Manitowoc, WI (US);
Lawrence Livermore National Security, Llc, Livermore, CA (US);
Orlando Rios, Knoxville, TN (US);
Scott McCall, Livermore, CA (US);
Ryan Ott, Ames, IA (US);
Zachary Cole Sims, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael Kesler, Knoxville, TN (US);
Hunter B. Henderson, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael McGuire, Knoxville, TN (US);
David Weiss, Manitowoc, WI (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
ECK Industries Incorporated, Manitowoc, WI (US);
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments of rapidly solidified alloys that comprise aluminum, a rare earth element, one or more additional alloying elements, such as aluminum, and an optional additive component. The alloy embodiments exhibit a unique microstructure as compared to microstructures obtained from other alloys that are not rapidly cooled. The disclosed aluminum-rare earth element alloys also exhibit improved mechanical properties without the need for post-processing heat treatments and further do not exhibit substantial coarsening.