Aluminum Chromium Alloy

AlCr Metal Alloy

Product

Al-80% Cr-20%

Aluminum Chromium is one of numerous metal alloys sold by American

Elements under the tradename AE Alloys. Generally immediately available
in most volumes, AE Alloys are available as bar, Ingot, ribbon, wire, shot,
sheet, and foil. Ultra high purityand high purity forms also include
metal powder, submicron powder and nanoscale, targets for thin
film deposition, and pellets for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical
vapor deposition (PVD) applications. American Elements produces to many
standard grades when applicable, including Mil Spec (military grade); ACS,
Reagent and Technical Grade; Food, Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Grade;
Optical Grade, USP and EP/BP (European Pharmacopoeia/British
Pharmacopoeia) and follows applicable ASTM testing standards. Typical and
custom packaging is available. Primary applications include bearing assembly,
ballast, casting, step soldering, and radiation shielding.

Aluminum, also known as Aluminium, (atomic symbol: Al, atomic number:

13) is a Block P, Group 13, Period 3 element with an atomic weight of
26.9815386. It is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust and the

most abundant metallic element.

Aluminum's name is derived from

alumina, the mineral from which Sir Humphrey Davy attempted to refine it from
in 1812. It wasn't until 1825 that Aluminum was first isolated by Hans Christian
Oersted. Aluminum is a silvery gray metal that possesses many desirable
characteristics. It is light, nonmagnetic and non-sparking. It stands second
among metals in the scale of malleability, and sixth in ductility. It is extensively
used in many industrial applications where a strong, light, easily constructed

material is needed.

Although it has only 60% of the electrical

conductivity of copper, it is used in electrical transmission lines because of its

light weight. Pure aluminum is soft and lacks strength, but alloyed with small
amounts of copper,magnesium, silicon, manganese, or other elements it
imparts a variety of useful properties. Aluminum was first predicted by Antoine
Lavoisierin 1787 and first isolated by Friedrich Whler in 1827. For more
information on aluminum, including properties, safety data, research, and
American Elements' catalog of aluminum products, visit the Aluminum element
page.

Chromium (atomic symbol: Cr, atomic number: 24) is a Block D, Group 6,

Period 4 element with an atomic weight of 51.9961.

The number of

electrons in each of Chromium's shells is 2, 8, 13, 1 and its electron

configuration is [Ar] 3d5 4s1. Chromium was first discovered by Louis Nicolas
Vauquelin in 1797. It was first isolated in 1798, also by Louis Nicolas

Vauquelin. The chromium atom has a radius of 128 pm and a Van der Waals
radius of 189 pm. In its elemental form, chromium has a lustrous steel-gray

appearance.

Chromium is the hardest metal element in the periodic

table and the only element that exhibits antiferromagnetic ordering at room
temperature, above which it tranforms into a paramagnetic solid. The most
common source of chromium is chromite ore (FeCr2O4). Due to its various
colorful compounds, Chromium was named after the Greek word 'chroma'
meaning color. For more information on chromium, including properties, safety
data, research, and American Elements' catalog of chromium products, visit
the Chromium element page.

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PACKAGING SPECIFICATIONS FOR BULK & RESEARCH QUANTITIES

Typical bulk packaging includes palletized plastic 5 gallon/25 kg. pails, fiber and steel drums to 1 ton super sack
truck load (T/L) quantities. Research and sample quantities and hygroscopic, oxidizing or other air sensitive mat
under argon or vacuum. Shipping documentation includes a Certificate of Analysis and Material Safety Data She
packaged in polypropylene, plastic or glass jars up to palletized 440 gallon liquid totes.

Recent Research & Development for Aluminum

Jung-Ryul Lee, Jae-Kyeong Jang, Mijin Choi, Cheol-Won Kong, Visualization and
simulation of a linear explosive-induced pyroshock wave using Q-switched laser and
phased array transducers in a space launcher composite structure, Optics & Laser
Technology, Volume 67, April 2015

Jia Liu, Shichun Jiang, Yan Shi, Yulin Kuang, Genzhe Huang, Hong Zhang, Laser fusion
brazing of aluminum alloy to galvanized steel with pure Al filler powder, Optics & Laser
Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

Arash Ahmadivand, Saeed Golmohammadi, Surface plasmon resonances and plasmon

hybridization in compositional Al/Al2O3/SiO2 nanorings at the UV spectrum to the near
infrared region (NIR), Optics & Laser Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

Jin Wang, Hui-Ping Wang, Xiaojie Wang, Haichao Cui, Fenggui Lu, Statistical analysis of
process parameters to eliminate hot cracking of fiber laser welded aluminum alloy, Optics
& Laser Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

Ying Qi, Hongxia Qi, Qinxin Wang, Zhou Chen, Zhan Hu, The influence of double pulse
delay and ambient pressure on femtosecond laser ablation of silicon, Optics & Laser
Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

G.F. Sun, K. Wang, R. Zhou, Z.P. Tong, X.Y. Fang, Effect of annealing on microstructure
and mechanical properties of laser deposited Co-285+WC coatings, Optics & Laser
Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

B.S. Yilbas, C. Karatas, Halil Karakoc, B.J. Abdul Aleem, S. Khan, N. Al-Aqeeli, Laser
surface treatment of aluminum based composite mixed with B4C particles, Optics &
Laser Technology, Volume 66, March 2015

Paolo Mazzoleni, Fabio Matta, Emanuele Zappa, Michael A. Sutton, Alfredo Cigada,
Gaussian pre-filtering for uncertainty minimization in digital image correlation using
numerically-designed speckle patterns, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Volume 66,
March 2015

Chia-Hung Hung, Fuh-Yu Chang, Tien-Li Chang, Yu-Ting Chang, Kai-Wen Huang, PoChin Liang, Micromachining NiTi tubes for use in medical devices by using a
femtosecond laser, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Volume 66, March 2015

Cong Liu, Xingyi Zhang, Jun Zhou, Youhe Zhou, The coherent gradient sensor for thin
film curvature measurements in multiple media, Optics and Lasers in Engineering,
Volume 66, March 2015

Recent Research & Development for Chromium

Guangye Wei, Jingkui Qu, Zhihui Yu, Yongli Li, Qiang Guo, Tao Qi, Mineralizer effects on
the synthesis of amorphous chromium hydroxide and chromium oxide green pigment
using hydrothermal reduction method, Dyes and Pigments, Volume 113, February 2015

Fei Liu, Yehua Jiang, Han Xiao, Jun Tan, Study on fragmentation and dissolution
behavior of carbide in a hot-rolled hypereutectic high chromium cast iron, Journal of
Alloys and Compounds, Volume 618, 5 January 2015

Zhiwei Zhao, Hongjuan Zheng, Shaojing Liu, Jianhong Shen, Weiqiang Song, Jinshen
Chen, Low temperature synthesis of chromium carbide (Cr3C2) nanopowders by a novel
precursor method, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, Volume
48, January 2015

Meike V.F. Schlupp, Ji Woo Kim, Aude Brevet, Cyril Rado, Karine Couturier, Ulrich F.
Vogt, Florence Lefebvre-Joud, Andreas Zttel, Avoiding chromium transport from
stainless steel interconnects into contact layers and oxygen electrodes in intermediate
temperature solid oxide electrolysis stacks, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 270, 15
December 2014

T.J. Pan, B. Zhang, J. Li, Y.X. He, F. Lin, An investigation on corrosion protection of
chromium nitride coated FeCr alloy as a bipolar plate material for proton exchange
membrane fuel cells, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 269, 10 December 2014

Chun Wu, Jiao Gao, Qinglan Zhao, Youwei Zhang, Yansong Bai, Xingyan Wang, Xianyou
Wang, Preparation and supercapacitive behaviors of the ordered
mesoporous/microporous chromium carbide-derived carbons, Journal of Power Sources,
Volume 269, 10 December 2014

W. Wglewski, M. Basista, A. Manescu, M. Chmielewski, K. Pietrzak, Th. Schubert,

Effect of grain size on thermal residual stresses and damage in sintered chromium
alumina composites: Measurement and modeling, Composites Part B: Engineering,
Volume 67, December 2014

Tapas Debnath, Ahamed Ullah, Claus H. Rscher, Altaf Hussain, Chromium substitution
in mullite type bismuth aluminate: Bi2CrxAl4xO9 with 0x2.0, Journal of Solid State
Chemistry, Volume 220, December 2014

Konstantinos Kapnisis, Georgios Constantinides, Harry Georgiou, Daniel Cristea,

Camelia Gabor, Daniel Munteanu, Brigitta Brott, Peter Anderson, Jack Lemons, Andreas
Anayiotos, Multi-scale mechanical investigation of stainless steel and cobaltchromium
stents, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 40,
December 2014

Hui Zhang, Yong Zou, Zengda Zou, Chuanwei Shi, Effects of chromium addition on
microstructure and properties of TiCVC reinforced Fe-based laser cladding coatings,
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 614, 25 November 2014