Synthesis of Bulk Polycrystalline Ti_2AlN CeramicYAN Ming,MEI Bing-chu,ZHU Jiao-qun,TIAN Chen-guang,WANG Ping (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China)High-purity Ti2AlN ceramic was prepared by in-situ hot pressing(HP) and spark plasma sintering(SPS) of Ti/Al/TiN powders in stoichiometric proportion.Xray diffraction(XRD) was used to analyze the phase composition.Scanning electron microscopy(SEM) was utilized to investigate the morphology characteristics.The density of Ti2AlN prepared at the optimal synthetic temperature 1 300 ℃ by HP was measured to be 4.22 g/cm3,which reached 97.9% of its theory densities.The density of Ti2AlN prepared at the optimal synthetic temperature 1 200 ℃ by SPS was measured to be 4.28 g/cm3,which reached 99.3% of its theory densities.Ti2AlN phase was well developed with close and lamellate structure.Ti2AlN;synthesis;in-situ hot pressing;spark plasma sintering;bulk