• 专利标题:   Preparation of graphene reinforced titanium alloy bar used as e.g. alternative material for bone by melting zirconium, niobium, iron, chromium, tin, gallium, hafnium, tantalum, aluminum, vanadium, boron, cerium, and titanium, and casting.
  • 专利号:   CN105018790-A, CN105018790-B
  • 发明人:   LU C, CUI H, HUANG W, LI H, QIU Z, SONG T, ZHU Y
  • 专利权人:   LU C, BEIJING AOJING MEDICAL EQUIP CO LTD
  • 国际专利分类:   A61L027/06, A61L027/30, C22C001/02, C22C014/00, C22F001/18, C23C022/02, C23C004/06, C23C004/14
  • 专利详细信息:   CN105018790-A 04 Nov 2015 C22C-014/00 201624 Pages: 9 English
  • 申请详细信息:   CN105018790-A CN10476617 06 Aug 2015
  • 优先权号:   CN10476617

▎ 摘  要

NOVELTY - Preparation of graphene reinforced titanium alloy bar involves weighing 7-10% zirconium, 16-18% niobium, 1.5-2.5% iron, 0.5-0.8% chromium, 0.5-0.9% gallium, 0.25-0.75% tin, 0.02-0.07% hafnium, 1-2% tantalum, 1-2% aluminum, 0.25-0.45% vanadium, 0.1-0.18% boron, 0.12-0.18% cerium, and balance titanium; melting components in vacuum arc furnace; stirring; casting into ingot; putting ingot into vacuum furnace; heat treating under argon gas protection at 200-250 degrees C/hour at 920-940 degrees C for 6-10 hours; gradually cooling; and forging coated molding surface of ingot. USE - Preparation of graphene reinforced titanium alloy bar used as alternative material for bone, joints and artificial tooth root and other hard tissue repair. ADVANTAGE - The method has optimized heat treatment and spraying coating processes, and has refined preparation steps, thus ensuring quality and excellent mechanical properties of alloy. DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Preparation of graphene reinforced titanium alloy bar comprises: (A) preparing ingot by weighing 7-10% zirconium, 16-18% niobium, 1.5-2.5% iron, 0.5-0.8% chromium, 0.5-0.9% gallium, 0.25-0.75% tin, 0.02-0.07% hafnium, 1-2% tantalum, 1-2% aluminum, 0.25-0.45% vanadium, 0.1-0.18% boron, 0.12-0.18% cerium, and balance titanium; melting components in vacuum arc furnace; stirring; casting into ingot; putting ingot into vacuum furnace; heat treating under argon gas protection at 200-250 degrees C/hour at 920-940 degrees C for 6-10 hours; gradually cooling at 120-150 degrees C/hour at 550-580 degrees C for 2-6 hours, at 80-90 degrees C/hour at 280-320 degrees C for 2-5 hours, further cooling at 50-65 degrees C/hour at 180-190 degrees C for 2-5 hours; and cooling at room temperature with furnace to obtain ingot; (B) forging coated molding surface by coating billet surface with boron nitride as main component to prevent oxidation during high temperature processing and to increase lubrication; free-forging ingot at 1000 tons in hydraulic machine at 900-1000 degrees C for 1-2 hours; final forging at 660-720 degrees C; repeatedly forging in side length to obtain 200-300 mm square billets; cooling at room temperature; grinding billet surface defects after heating at 900-950 degrees C to obtain upsetting and stretching deformation of 3-6 times; final forging at 770-810 degrees C until pass deformation of 20-45% is obtained and 70-130% total cumulative deformation is attained; cooling forged billet at room temperature; grinding surface defects; heating at 700-740 degrees C; forging upsetting and stretching for 3-6 times until pass deformation of 15-30% is achieved and cumulative total deformation of 55-110% is attained; cooling upset forged billet at room temperature; grinding surface defects; heating at 680-720 degrees C; forging upsetting and stretching for 2-3 times until pass deformation of 40-50% is achieved; performing final pull duration forging chamfering; rounding; cooling at room temperature; grinding surface defects; reheating at 730-740 degrees C; chamfering and rounding; and stretching and forging to obtain bar with diameter of 40-80 mm; (C) heat treating by putting bar in bar box-type resistance furnace with treatment solution; heat treating at 860-900 degrees C for 15-45 minutes; water quenching in vacuum furnace under protection of argon gas; heating at 450-480 degrees C for 2-3 hours; performing gradual furnace cooling at 280-310 degrees C for 3-4 hours, and at 180-220 degrees C for 5-6 hours; cooling with water; and aging; (D) pretreating surface by washing heat-treated alloy bar with 90-100 degrees C hot water; water cooling at room temperature; cleaning; drying with compressed air; blowing quartz sand to remove machining marks and to increase roughness; immersing titanium alloy bar in alkaline solution at 350-550 degrees C for 30-60 minutes, in which alkaline solution is mixed solution of 70-80 wt.% sodium hydroxide and 20-30 wt.% sodium nitrate; pickling bar surface at 40-50 degrees C for 15-45 minutes with acid liquid composition comprising 20-30 pts. wt. of 98% concentrated sulfuric acid, 6-8 pts. wt. of 36.5% hydrochloric acid, 1-2 pts. wt. dialkyl imidazoline, 1-3 pts. wt. ethylenediamine, and 30-60 pts. wt. water; and immersing titanium bar in acid solution at 90-150 degrees C for 15-20 minutes for passivation treatment, in which acid solution comprises 150-200 g/l sodium nitrate and 15-45 g/l sodium fluoride aqueous solution to control iron ion concentration at less than 20 g/l; (E) preparing graphene film by putting titanium bar in isopropanol ultrasound; rinsing with ultrapure water; slowly soaking bar into piranha solution at 30-60 degrees C; standing; removing treated titanium bar and further soaking in piranha solution at 30-60 degrees C for surface hydroxylation; rinsing alloy bar with deionized water; soaking in aminosilane solution; putting graphene oxide powder into distilled water; ultrasonic dispersing to obtain colloidal graphene oxide solution with concentration of 0.1-6.0 mg/ml; immersing titanium alloy bar in colloidal graphene oxide solution in closed vessel; continuously maintaining at constant temperature; immersing titanium bar in mixed solution of hydrohalogenic acid and phosphoric acid; heating in sealed container; repeatedly washing with deionized water until pH of water washing is neutral; and drying titanium alloy bar to obtain titanium alloy bar having surface coated with graphene film; and (F) spraying surface coating by preparing coating materials comprising 60-80 pts. wt. titanium oxide powder, 0.1-1.0 pts. wt. silver powder, 15-20 pts. wt. wollastonite powder, 0.1-0.5 pts. wt. silver oxide powder, and 2-4 pts. wt. titanium diboride powder; spraying coating via atmospheric plasma spraying onto surface of titanium alloy bar under protection of argon gas at flowrate of 15-30 l/minute, hydrogen gas at flowrate of 15-20 l/minute, and argon carrier gas flowrate of 0.5-2.5 l/minute, spraying distance of 40-60 mm, feed rate of 5-10 g/minute, spraying current of 450-600 A, and coating thickness of 0.5-3 mm; heat treating coated titanium rod in vacuum furnace under argon gas protection at 550-650 degrees C for 1-2 hours; cooling at 150-200 degrees C for 24-48 hours; and cooling with furnace to obtain graphene reinforced titanium alloy bar.