Crystal structure, microstructure, and magnetic properties of the Fe2CrSi nanostructured Heusler alloy elaborated by the mechanical alloying method

Author(s):  
Fatiha Djaidi ◽  
Hanane Mechri ◽  
Mohammed Azzaz

Abstract The Fe2CrSi nanostructured Heusler alloy was prepared by mechanical alloying followed by heat treatment. The structure, microstructure, and magnetic properties of the samples were studied by the following analysis methods: X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy, and a vibrating sample magnetometer. The a-Fe (Si, Cr) solid solution with a disordered body centered cubic (bcc) crystal structure was obtained after 24 h of milling. An example of the sample milled for 32 h with a disordered crystal structure a-Fe(Si, Cr) was chosen to investigate the transformation with temperature using differential scanning calorimetry. The effect of annealing temperatures on the structural, microstructural, and magnetic properties of the ordered Fe2CrSi Heusler phase for the sample milled for 32 h was investigated.

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1887
Author(s):  
Denis Davydov ◽  
Nataliya Kazantseva ◽  
Nikolai Popov ◽  
Nina Vinogradova ◽  
Igor Ezhov

Phase transitions in the Co-rich part of the Co–Al–Nb–Mo phase diagram are studied by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements. The obtained results were compared with the results for alloys of the binary Co–Al and ternary Co–Al–Nb, and Co–Al–Mo systems. Formation of the intermetallic phase with the L12 structure was found in a range of alloys with 10 at.% Al, 2–9 at.% Nb, and 3–7 at.% Mo. Intermetallic compound Co2Nb, Laves phase with the different chemical composition and crystal structure (C14 and C36) was detected in the Co–Al–Nb and Co–Al–Nb–Mo samples after vacuum solution treating at 1250 °C for 30 h.


2009 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Maziarz ◽  
Jan Dutkiewicz ◽  
Rafał Wróblewski ◽  
Marcin Leonowicz

The microstructure, texture and magnetic properties of two ferromagnetic alloys of composition Co35Ni37Al28 and Co37Ni35Al28 (in at. %) were investigated with optical microscopy (OM), analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) techniques as well as a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The alloys were plastically deformed and heat treated in order to promote the martensitic transformation. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) revealed a drop of Ms temperature due to the increase of Co content in the alloys. The elongated twinned grains of size about 200 m and small precipitates of  phase were identified with the OM techniques. The TEM observations showed the twinned L10 non modulated martensite within the elongated grains and a small amount of ordered ’ phase after the heat treatment. The chemical composition of different martensite grains was established using point analyses of a HAADF-EDS technique. The magnetic phase transition temperatures were determined on the deformed samples using VSM method.


2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Rahim Sabbaghizadeh ◽  
Roslinda Shamsudin ◽  
Samikanu Kanagesan ◽  
Ghazaleh Bahmanrokh

In this study, Nanocrystalline Nd8Pr2Fe79-xCo5B6Alx (x= 0, 1, 2, 3) magnets were prepared by mechanical alloying method and respective heat treatment in a constant time and temperature. Afterward, the effects of the Al addition on the microstructure and magnetic properties of Nd-Fe-Co-B alloy were studied. The changes in the nanostructure and magnetic properties were examined by X-Ray diffraction (XRD), combined with Field Emission Scanning electron microscopy (FeSEM) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Addition of Al was found to be effective for improving the coercivity parameter and the hysteresis squareness in Nd–Fe–Co–B magnets without decreasing much the remanent magnetization.


2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 1106-1109
Author(s):  
Ya Qiong He ◽  
Chang Hui Mao ◽  
Jian Yang

Nanocrystalline Fe-Co alloy powders, which were prepared by high-energy mechanical milling, were nitrided under the mixing gas of NH3/H2 in the temperature range from 380°C to 510°C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to analyze the grain size and reaction during the processing. The magnetic properties of the nitrided powders were measured by Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). The results show that with the appearance of Fe4N phase after nitride treatment, and the grain-size of FeCo phase decreases with the increase of nitridation temperature between 380°C to 450°C.The saturation magnetization of nitrided alloy powder treated at 480°C is about 18% higher than that of the initial Fe-Co alloy powder, accompanied by the reduction of the coercivity. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) was used, attempting to further analyze the effect of Fe4N phase on microstructure and magnetic properties of the powder mixtures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 990 ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Kraiwit Pakutsah ◽  
Duangdao Aht-Ong

In this work, we described an effective approach to prepare nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) with cellulose II structure under mild condition. Firstly, the water hyacinth (WH) was subjected to a series of a two-step chemical treatment, NaOH/urea pretreatment, and mechanical defibrillation at different defibrillation times. After that, raw water hyacinth fiber (RWF), bleached water hyacinth fiber (BWF), NaOH/urea pretreated water hyacinth fiber (PWF), and the resulting NFC were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) as well as rheological measurements. It was found that RWF and BWF exhibited cellulose I crystal structure, whereas PWF and the obtained NFC possessed cellulose II crystal structure. FTIR analysis confirmed the evidence that no other chemical reactions preferentially occurred during both NaOH/urea pretreatment and mechanical defibrillation. As evidenced by rheological properties analysis, the NFC aqueous suspension with a gel-like structure demonstrated a shear-thinning behavior. The obtained NFC could potentially be utilized as a reinforcement for polymeric composites.


2011 ◽  
Vol 412 ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Hong Wei Zhang ◽  
Li Li Zhang ◽  
Feng Rui Zhai ◽  
Jia Jin Tian ◽  
Can Bang Zhang

The higher mechanical strength of Al87Ce3Ni8.5Mn1.5 nanophase amorphous composites has been obtained with two methods. The first nanophase amorphous composites are directly produced by the single roller spin quenching technology. The method taken for the second nanophase amorphous composites is at first to obtain amorphous single-phase alloy, followed by annealed at different temperatures .The formative condition, the microstructure, the particle size, the volume fraction of α-Al phase and microhardness of nanophase amorphous composites etc have been investigated and compared by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The microstructure of composites produced by the second method is higher than the former, the fabricated material structure of the system is more uniform and the process is easier to control.


1998 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 722-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Reinauer ◽  
R. Glaum

The crystal structure of pentatitanium tetraoxide tetrakis(phosphate), Ti5O4(PO4)4, has been determined and refined from X-ray diffraction single-crystal data [P212121 (No. 19), Z = 4, a = 12.8417 (12), b = 14.4195 (13), c = 7.4622 (9) Å (from Guinier photographs); conventional residual R 1 = 0.042 for 2556 Fo > 4σ(Fo ), R 1 = 0.057 for all 3276 independent reflections; 282 parameters; 29 atoms in the asymmetric unit of the ideal structure]. The structure is closely related to those of β-Fe2O(PO4)-type phosphates and synthetic lipscombite, Fe3(PO4)4(OH). While these consist of infinite chains of face-sharing MO6 octahedra, in pentatitanium tetraoxide tetrakis(phosphate) only five-eighths of the octahedral voids are occupied according to □3Ti5O4(PO4)4. Four of the five independent Ti4+O6 show high radial distortion [1.72 ≤ d(Ti−O) ≤ 2.39 Å] and a typical 1 + 4 + 1 distance distribution. The fifth Ti4+O6 is an almost regular octahedron [1.91 ≤ d(Ti−O) ≤ 1.98 Å]. Partial disorder of Ti4+ over the available octahedral voids is revealed by the X-ray structure refinement. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) investigations confirm this result.


2013 ◽  
Vol 275-277 ◽  
pp. 1952-1955
Author(s):  
Ling Fang Jin ◽  
Xing Zhong Li

New functional nanocomposite FePt:C thin films with FePt underlayers were synthesized by noneptaxial growth. The effect of the FePt layer on the ordering, orientation and magnetic properties of the composite layer has been investigated by adjusting FePt underlayer thickness from 2 nm to 14 nm. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), together with x-ray diffraction (XRD), has been used to check the growth of the double-layered films and to study the microstructure, including the grain size, shape, orientation and distribution. XRD scans reveal that the orientation of the films was dependent on FePt underlayer thickness. In this paper, the TEM studies of both single-layered nonepitaxially grown FePt and FePt:C composite L10 phase and double-layered deposition FePt:C/FePt are presented.


1991 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toyohiko J. Konno ◽  
Robert Sinclair

AbstractThe crystallization of amorphous Si in a Al/Si multilayer (with a modulation length of about 120Å) was investigated using transmission electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction. Amorphous Si was found to crystallize at about 175 °C with the heat of reaction of 11±2(kJ/mol). Al grains grow prior to the nucleation of crystalline Si. The crystalline Si was found to nucleate within the grown Al layers. The incipient crystalline Si initially grows within the Al layer and then spreads through the amorphous Si and other Al layers. Because of extensive intermixing, the original layered structure is destroyed. The Al(111) texture is also enhanced.


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