Single-phase hexagonal close-packed structure of the ScYLaGdTbDyHoErLu high-entropy alloy was studied in detail. The applicability rule mixture analyzed with respect to lattice constant, mechanical parameters, elastic properties, melting point, and hardness alloy. Significant tension-compression asymmetry has been found explained by strength differential effect during uniaxial tests. Numerous d...

the cluster representation matrices have already been successfully used to enumerate close-packed vacancy clusters in all single-lattice crystals [i, 2]. point defect clusters in double-lattice crystals may have identical geometry but are distinct due to unique atomic postions enclosing them. the method of representation matrices is extended to make it applicable to represent and enumerate the ...

The magnetic state of hexagonal close-packed iron has been the subject of debate for more than three decades. Although Mössbauer measurements find no evidence of the hyperfine splitting that can signal the presence of magnetic moments, density functional theory predicts an antiferromagnetic (afm) ground state. This discrepancy between theory and experiment is now particularly important because ...

We demonstrate the direct three-dimensional imaging of densely packed colloidal nanostructures using stimulated emission depletion microscopy. A combination of two de-excitation patterns yields a resolution of 43 nm in the lateral and 125 nm in the axial direction and an effective focal volume that is by 126-fold smaller than that of a corresponding confocal microscope. The mapping of a model s...

Nanoparticles often self-assemble into hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) structures although it is predicted to be less stable than face-centered-cubic (fcc) packing in hard-sphere models. In addition to close-packed fcc and hcp superlattices, we observe formation of nonclose-packed simple-hexagonal (sh) superlattices of nearly spherical PbS, PbSe, and gamma-Fe2O3 nanocrystals. This surprisingly ric...