Microstructure and mechanical properties of Mo@La2O3 alloy manufactured by electroless plating method
In order to improve the mechanical properties of Molybdenum alloy,the present work manufactured the Mo@La2O3 sintered bulk which contains 2%wt of La2O3 by utilizing electroless plating method together with spark plasma sinter(SPS)technology.Characterizations such as SEM,EDS,XRD,Vicker hardness test and Nano-inden-tation test were selected to analyze the microstructure and mechanical property of Mo@La2O3 sintered bulks.The results show that to dope La2O3 by using electroless plating method,holes in the sintered bulk were filled up,which improved the relative density and refined grains of the alloy.The mechanical properties including hardness and stiff-ness were promoted due to the combined influence of the increasing relative density,grain boundary strengthening and dispersion strengthening mechanism.