Aluminum alloys for electrical engineering: a review
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Abstract
Abstract High-performance conductors are essential for economically and environmentally sustainable ways of electricity transfer in modern infrastructure, manufacturing and transportation, including electric vehicles. This report reviews the aluminum conductors, their fundamentals, classification and utilization markets, focusing on metallurgical characteristics of present commercial solutions and the strategy of future development directions. The inherent features of aluminum, both beneficial and detrimental, for electrical engineering are emphasized along with alloying concepts that provide the accelerated decomposition of matrix solid solution to minimize the electron scattering. Development activities are assessed of new generation of aluminum conductors that in addition to alloying utilize novel processing techniques such as ultra-fast crystallization, severe plastic deformation and complex thermomechanical treatments aiming at grain reduction to nanometer scale, crystallographic texture control and grain boundary engineering. Transition metals and rare earths are considered as the promising alloying candidates for high-strength conductors having superior thermal stability with extra importance given to immiscible systems of Al–Ce, Al–La and Al–Y along with multiply additions, combined to generate the synergy effects. The composites with cladding configuration and particulate reinforcement including via carbon-type strengtheners are discussed as the effective solutions of advanced conductors. A variety of strategies that aim at overcoming the strength–conductivity trade-off in conductor materials are presented throughout the report. Graphical abstract
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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