Influence of alloying elements Ni and Nb on thermal stability and corrosion resistance of Cu-based bulk metallic glasses

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1710-1717 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.L. Qin ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
K. Asami ◽  
H. Kimura ◽  
A. Inoue

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with critical diameters of 2.5–3 mm were synthesized in the (Cu0.6Zr0.3Ti0.1)100−x−yNiyNbxsystem by copper-mold casting. These alloys exhibit a large supercooled liquid region (ΔTx) of 40–60 K and a high reduced glass transition temperature (Tg/Tl) of 0.60–0.61, indicating high glass-forming ability and high thermal stability of the supercooled liquid. The corrosion rates in 1 N HCl and 3 mass% NaCl solutions significantly decrease by simultaneous alloying with Ni and Nb elements. The addition is also effective in raising the pitting potential in chloride solutions. The addition of Ni and Nb is favorable for the alloys in forming Zr-, Ti-, and Nb-enriched highly protective surface films in HCl and NaCl solutions.

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.L. Qin ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
K. Asami ◽  
N. Ohtsu ◽  
A. Inoue

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with high thermal stability and good corrosion resistance were synthesized in the (Cu0.6Hf0.25Ti0.15)100−x−yNiyNbx system by copper mold casting. The addition of Ni element causes an extension of a supercooled liquid region (ΔTx = Tx – Tg) from 60 K for Cu60Hf25Ti15 to 70 K for (Cu0.6Hf0.25Ti0.15)95Ni5. The simultaneous addition of Ni and Nb to the alloy is effective in improving synergistically the corrosion resistance in 1 N HCl, 3 mass% NaCl, and 1 N H2SO4 + 0.01 N NaCl solutions. The highly protective Hf-, Ti-, and Nb-enriched surface film is formed by the rapid initial preferential dissolution of Cu and Ni, which is responsible for the high corrosion resistance of the alloys in the solutions examined.


2012 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
San Xin Wang ◽  
Ze Yu Wu

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) alloys (Fe71.2B24Y4.8)96Nb4-xZrx (x = 1-4 at.%) with a maximum diameter of 5 mm were synthesized with low purity materials by copper mold casting technique. The effect of Zr substitution for Nb on the structure, thermal stability and the magnetic properties has been studied. It was found that the substitution of an appropriate amount of Zr for Nb can improve the glass forming ability. The wide supercooled liquid region ∆Tx (exceeding 123 K) and a high Tg (exceeding 868 K) demonstrated a high thermal stability of the present Fe-based BMGs. In addition, these BMGs also exhibit good soft magnetic properties with relatively high saturation magnetization of 88 emu/g, and low coercivity of 20 Oe.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 679-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. XIA ◽  
Y. D. DONG

Paramagnetic Nd 60 Co 40-x Al x(x=5, 10, 15) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) were prepared in the shape of rods 2 mm in diameter by suction casting. The ternary alloys have shown distinct glass transitions in Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) measurements and excellent glass-forming ability. The glass transition and crystallization behaviors as well as their kinetics have been studied. The reduced glass transition temperature and the supercooled liquid region of the alloys were found to increase with the increasing content of Al . The role of Al was discussed. The parameter γ defined by Liu et al. was employed to discuss the glass-forming ability of the alloys and the critical cooling rates as well as the critical section thickness of the alloys were predicted accordingly.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1940-1945 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Qiang ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
A. Inoue

The formation of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and their room temperature mechanical properties have been investigated in a serial of Ni65−xZr20Nb15Pdx (x = 0∼15; at.%) quaternary alloys, which are hopefully hydrogen-permeation materials. The partial substitution of Ni with Pd in Ni65Zr20Nb15 alloy has proved to be effective in improving glass-forming ability (GFA) and thermal stability. In particular, good BMG-forming compositions were revealed within the Pd content range of 2.5–12.5 at.%, and BMG rods of 3 mm in diameter were successfully made at compositions Ni57.5Zr20Nb15Pd7.5 and Ni55Zr20Nb15Pd10 by copper mold casting. The addition of Pd enhanced the thermal stability of the supercooled liquid. With an increase of Pd content, the supercooled liquid span, ΔTx = Tx − Tg, increased from 29 K at Ni65Zr20Nb15 to 47 K at Ni52.5Zr20Nb15Pd12.5. The Pd-bearing BMGs exhibited high fracture strength, which ranged from 2750 to 2850 MPa. These Pd-bearing BMGs showed a certain degree of toughness, and the highest plastic strain, about 2%, was reached in the Ni60Zr20Nb15Pd5 BMG.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (15n16) ◽  
pp. 2314-2319
Author(s):  
YUNFEI JI ◽  
SHUJIE PANG ◽  
CHAOLI MA ◽  
TAO ZHANG

The effect of alloy composition on improving glass-forming ability of La -based alloys is investigated in this work. Previous composition criteria demonstrated that the alloys with high glass-forming ability should have negative heats of mixing among the main constituent elements. In this study, the addition of Fe to a La -based La - Al - Ni - Cu alloy significantly improved the glass-forming ability, although the heat of mixing between Fe and the main element La is positive. La - Al - Ni - Cu - Fe bulk metallic glasses with diameters up to 15 mm were prepared by the method of pouring the molten alloys into a copper mold. These La - Al - Ni - Cu - Fe bulk metallic glasses exhibit relatively wide supercooled liquid region of about 50 k, and high T rg (T g /T l ) and γ(T x /(T g +T l )) values. It is found that the addition of Fe to the La - Al - Ni - Cu alloy lowers the Gibbs free energy difference between the liquid and crystalline phases in the supercooled liquid region and enhances the glass-forming ability of the alloy.


2008 ◽  
Vol 498 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 464-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.Q. Qiu ◽  
J. Pang ◽  
Y.L. Ren ◽  
H.B. Zhang ◽  
C.L. Ma ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.P. Lu ◽  
C.T. Liu

A new Mg-based bulk amorphous alloy (i.e., Mg65Cu25Gd10) has successfully been developed by Men and Kim [H. Men and D.H. Kim, J. Mater. Res. 18, 1502 (2003)]. They showed that this alloy exhibits significantly improved glass-forming ability (GFA) in comparison with Mg65Cu25Y10 alloy. However, this improved GFA cannot be indicated by the supercooled liquid region ΔT and the reduced glass-transition temperature Trg. As shown in the current comment, the new parameter γ, Tx/(Tg + Tl) defined in our recent papers [Z.P. Lu and C.T. Liu, Acta Mater. 50, 3501 (2002); Z.P. Lu and C.T. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 115505 (2003)] can well gauge GFA for bulk metallic glasses, including the current Mg-based alloys.


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