Title
Formation of nanostructured Al<inf>64</inf>Cu<inf>23</inf>Fe<inf>13</inf> icosahedral quasicrystal by the ball milling technique
Date Issued
01 November 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
Nanocrystalline Al64Cu23Fe13 icosahedral quasicrystal has been obtained by milling of solid quasicrystal precursors prepared by arc-melt. The local structure around Fe atoms was studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy using a quadrupole splitting distribution method. Mössbauer results of annealed and milled samples show the existence of a broadened distribution of Fe sites which is associated to intrinsic disorder. The structural characterization was determined using x-ray diffraction. The average grain-size of the nanostructured quasicrystal, obtained from the line broadening of the X-ray diffraction peaks, was estimated to be of the order of 10 nm for a sample milled by 5 h.
Start page
105
End page
109
Volume
195
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-70749086006
Source
Hyperfine Interactions
ISSN of the container
03043843
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements We are grateful to J. Bravo for fruitful discussions. M. Yaro is thankful to the National University of San Marcos for partial financial support through its scientific initiation program (PIC-2006). Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos PIC-2006 UNMSM
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