Mechanical Alloying

This book is a detailed introduction to mechanical alloying, offering guidelines on the necessary equipment and facilities needed to carry out the process and giving a fundamental background to the reactions taking place. El-Eskandarany, a leading authority on mechanical alloying, discusses the mechanism of powder consolidations using different powder compaction processes. A new chapter will also be included on thermal, mechanically-induced and electrical discharge-assisted mechanical milling.Fully updated to cover recent developments in the field, this second edition also introduces new and emerging applications for mechanical alloying, including the fabrication of carbon nanotubes, surface protective coating and hydrogen storage technology. El-Eskandarany discusses the latest research into these applications, and provides engineers and scientists with the information they need to implement these developments. The industrial applications of nanocrystalline and metallic glassy powders are presented.The book also contains over 200 tables and graphs to illustrate the milling processes and present the properties and characteristics of the resulting materials.
- Guides readers through each step of the mechanical alloying process, covering best practice techniques and offering guidelines on the required equipment- Tables and graphs are used to explain the stages of the milling processes and provide an understanding of the properties and characteristics of the resulting materials- A comprehensive update on the previous edition, including new chapters to cover new applications

A full Professor of Materials Science and Nanotechnology gained his Master and Doctor Degrees at Tohoku University, Japan. He worked as a Professor at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Egypt. Until 2007, he worked as First-Under-Secretary of Egyptian Minster of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the former Vice-President of The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt. He has joined Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to work as Senior Research Scientist in 2007. Since then, he works as Senior Research Scientist and Program Manager of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. He is the founder of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials of KISR and the Project Leader of Establishing Nanotechnology Center in Kuwait. In 2018, he promoted to Principle Research Scientist. He has published more than 280 peer-reviewed papers in high-cited international scientific journals in the field of materials science, nanoscience and nanotechnology and more than 250 papers in the proceedings of several international conferences. He awarded six patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the area of nanomaterials, protective coating and hydrogen storage nanocomposites. He is the author of six scientific books and received many national and international awards, two of them given by the His Excellency the Former Egyptian President and the other one given by His Highness The Prince of Kuwait.

- Introduction- Fundamentals and Necessity of Mechanical Alloying and Milling- Mechanism of Mechanically-Induced Solid-State Reaction- Consolidation of Ball Milled Nanoscaled Materials- Characterization of Mechanically Alloyed Powders- Nanotechnology- Top Down Approach for Fabrications of Nanocrystalline Powders- Phase transformation on ball-milled carbon nanotubes- Mechanically Induced Solid State Carbonization- Reactive Ball Milling Fabrications of Metal Nitride Nanocrystalline Powders- Mechanically-Induced Hrydrogenation Reaction for Fabrication of Hydrogen Storage Nanocrystalline Powders- Fabrications of Nanocomposite Powders- Surface Protective Coating Powders- Mechanically Induced Solid-State Amorphization Applications of Mechanically Alloyed and Mechanically Milled Powders