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Formation of Bulk Nanostructured Materials by Rapid Solidification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

W. H. Guo ,
L. F. Chua ,
C. C. Leung  and
H. W. Kui
W. H. Guo
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
L. F. Chua
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
C. C. Leung
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
H. W. Kui
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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Abstract

When a eutectic melt is undercooled below its liquidus T1 by a critical amount, it undergoes metastable liquid-state spinodal decomposition. The resulting morphologies can be described as intermixing undercooled liquid networks of characteristic wavelength λ. At a temperature substantially below T1, λ can be <100 nm. When λ ≤ 100 nm, the undercooled liquid networks break up into nanometer-size droplets/strips driven apparently by surface tension. The morphologies of the tiny droplets/strips can be frozen by subsequent crystallization. The as-crystallized specimen is a nanostructured material. It is microvoid free and the size of the constituent grains is rather uniform. Two systems, Pd40.5Ni40.5P19 and Pd82Si18, were chosen to illustrate the synthesis process.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , July 2000 , pp. 1605 - 1611
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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