In the self-assembly process of β-Si3N4 (SN)/316L stainless-steel (SUS316L) composite materials tailored via sintering of powder mixtures, the formation of a SN agglomerate resulting from condensation–dispersion reactions during the stirring of SN/SUS316L was found to play an important role in improving the thermal conductivity. Moreover, the obtained SN secondary particle groups connected to form a network through diffusion-limited aggregation. In particular, it was shown that the sample prepared at the milling speed of 150 r/min has a similar particle group area (about 1.38 μm2) to that at 120 r/min, but a higher κ (increased from 9.5 W m−1 K−1 to 11.5 W m−1 K−1). To quantitatively evaluate the microstructural morphology of the texture of the self-assembled composite material, global parameters τ( q) and D q and local parameters α( q) and f( α) were determined via multifractal analysis. These characteristics of the anisotropy, dispersion, and cohesiveness of the particle network in the material texture could be analyzed together with the capacity dimension D0, information dimension D1 (configuration entropy), correlation dimension D2, and α( q) (related to internal energy). The results suggest that α( q) reflects the differences in the cohesion of the additive particle agglomeration that constitutes the self-assembly process under the solid-state reaction.
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