The Cu-Fe_3 and Cu-Cr_3C_2 bulk nanocomposites are prepared by consolidation of the mechanically alloyed powders. The structure and properties (density, Vickers microhardness and electrical conductivity) of them have been studied. It is shown that microhardness is equal to 236 HV and 470 HV for a Cu-5 vol.% carbide phase and for a Cu-30 vol.% carbide phase, respectively. The microhardness which can be influenced by the heat treatment temperature depends on the grain size of the Cu matrix. The electrical conductivity values of 38-44% IACS (International Annealing Copper Standard) at room temperature have been found.
The physical mechanisms of the deformation-induced structural transformations in molecular crystals, including morphological changes, amorphization and molecular polymorphous conversions in nano-dispersed bioinorganic compounds are discussed in this work. Integrated study using direct structural and structure-sensitive spectroscopic methods allowed obtaining the data on polymorphous transformations, taking place during mechanical activation in calcium gluconate monohydrate (CG). One of the possible reasons for lattice polymorphous transformations and amorphization, observed in the course of mechanical activation of low-symmetry molecular crystals, might be the spatial molecular isomerization. In this case, the disappearance of the translational invariance of the lattice is conditioned by the simultaneous coexistence of the reactants and reaction products, which have different stereo-organization of the molecular structure.
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