The undercooling of the single micro-sized droplet of Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu(wt%)alloy has been studied via the newly developed fast calorimetric scanning technique,by which the fast heating and cooling treatment for a single droplet can be realized,with the maximum heating or cooling rate being 1×104K/s.Owing to the nearly spherical shape of the single droplet upon heating and cooling and the resul-tant geometric stability,the influence of the droplet size on the solidification process could be elimi-nated.As a result,the puzzled issue on how to separate the mutual effects of droplet size and cooling rate in the field of rapid solidification has been primarily solved,making it possible to study separately the effect of droplet size and cooling rate.Meanwhile,the in-situ observation on deep undercooling could be actualized in this condition,differing from that obtained only by theoretical calculation.The results showed that the undercooling was increased with the increasing cooling rate,and the maximum in-situ measured undercooling reached 116.9K.The undercooling of the single droplet,however,was increased abruptly when cooled at the rate of 2×103K/s.The undercooling increased slightly as the cooling rate was increased continuously to 1×104K/s,implying the infeasibility for gaining large undercooling only by increasing the cooling rate.
Tin nanoparticles with different size distribution were synthesized using chemical reduction method by applying NaBH4 as reduction agent.The Sn nanoparticles smaller than 100 nm were less agglomerated and no obviously oxidized.The melting properties of these synthesized nanoparticles were studied by differential scanning calorimetry.The melting temperatures of Sn nanoparticles in diameter of 81,40,36 and 34 nm were 226.1,221.8,221.1 and 219.5？欲espectively.The size-dependent melting temperature and size-dependent latent heat of fusion have been observed.The size-dependent melting properties of tin nanoparticles in this study were also comparatively analyzed by employing different size-dependent theoretical melting models and the differences between these models were discussed.The results show that the experimental data are in accordance with the LSM model and SPI model,and the LSM model gives the better understanding for the melting property of the Sn nanoparticles.
