ResonantAcoustic® Mixing: Coating Of Micron Materials With Nanopowder

Resodyn Acoustic Mixers, Inc. has developed a novel mixer product line that uses low-frequency, high-intensity acoustic energy for mixing. The technology, trademarked as ResonantAcoustic® Mixing (RAM), is applicable to a broad range of mixing classes that include liquid-gas, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and powder-powder systems. Highlighted in this bulletin is: Coating of micron materials with nanopowder, just one of many applications.

ResonantAcoustic® Mixing is capable of cost and time effective mixing of nano- and micron-sized powders. Nano-sized powder such as MgO can be, within minutes, uniformly dispersed and attached to micron-sized Mg powder in the form of an ultrathin film covering surface of all Mg powder particles. After ResonantAcoustic® Mixing, composite Mg/MgO powder can further be processed using conventional Powder Metallurgy, Casting, or Thermal Spray technologies resulting in an Mg microstructure reinforced coatings with uniformly distributed 3D network of MgO nanophase.