Mechanical milling of aluminum powder using planetary ball ...
One advantage of this type of mill is the ease of handling the vials (45 ml to 500 ml in volume) inside a glove box. a) b) Fig. 1. Retsch PM400 (a), and 500 ml jar single station (b) The aluminium powder used in this research has a purity of 99%. The particle size is 90%, µm and is flaky in shape.