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Materials (Basel)
December 2020
Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Konkoly Thege út 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary.
The aim of the work was to characterize the structure of AlCuFe alloy obtained with the use of conventional casting and rapid solidification-melt-spinning technology. Based on the literature data, the possibility of an icosahedral quasicrystalline phase forming in the Al-Cu-Fe was verified. Structure analysis was performed based on the results of X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, Fe Mössbauer and transmission electron microscopy.
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May 2020
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze I-50121, Italy.
Icosahedral quasicrystals (i-phases) in the Al-Cu-Fe system are of great interest because of their perfect quasicrystalline structure and natural occurrences in the Khatyrka meteorite. The natural quasicrystal of composition AlCuFe, referred to as i-phase II, is unique because it deviates significantly from the stability field of i-phase and has not been synthesized in a laboratory setting to date. Synthetic i-phases formed in shock-recovery experiments present a novel strategy for exploring the stability of new quasicrystal compositions and prove the impact origin of natural quasicrystals.
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June 2020
Chair of Metallic Materials, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. Amorphous Metal Solutions GmbH, Homburg, Germany.
New bulk glass-forming alloy compositions, exceeding a critical casting thickness of 1 mm, are developed in the (quasi-ternary) (Ti,Zr)-(Ni,Cu)-S system. The ternary eutectic composition TiNiCu is stepwise modified through additions of S (0-8 at%) and Zr (0-22.5 at%) at the expense of Ni and Ti, respectively.
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August 2016
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
We investigate the formation and stability of icosahedral quasicrystalline structures using a dynamic phase field crystal model. Nonlinear interactions between density waves at two length scales stabilize three-dimensional quasicrystals. We determine the phase diagram and parameter values required for the quasicrystal to be the global minimum free energy state.
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April 2014
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Non-Crystalline Materials, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120-749, Korea.
The formation of the icosahedral phase (I-phase) as a secondary solidification phase in Mg-Zn-Y and Mg-Zn-Al base systems provides useful advantages in designing high performance wrought magnesium alloys. The strengthening in two-phase composites (I-phase + -Mg) can be explained by dispersion hardening due to the presence of I-phase particles and by the strong bonding property at the I-phase/matrix interface. The presence of an additional secondary solidification phase can further enhance formability and mechanical properties.
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