Authors stressed an importance of low oxygen content of slowly cooled ingots for the homogeneous amorphous half top layers of arc-melted button ingots. The quenching procedure was also not favored to produce amorphous top layers. However authors made a liquid quenching machine to enhance the cooling speed. Photographs Figs.4(b) and 5 are troublesome. Originality as well as scientific significan...

Abstract: Mg2Ni alloy and Mg2Ni–x wt% TiO2 (x = 3, 5 and 10 wt %) composites are prepared by mechanical alloying. The produced alloy and composites are characterized as the particles with nanocrystalline/amorphous structure. The effects of TiO2 on hydrogen storage properties are investigated using anodic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. It is demonstrated that the initia...

Spin polarized current is of significant importance both scientifically and technologically. Recent advances in film growth and device fabrication in spintronics make possible an entirely new class of spin-based devices. An indispensable element in all these devices is the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) which has two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by an insulator barrier of atomic scale. Wh...

Two structural forms of a ternary alloy PtRuIr/C catalyst, one amorphous and one highly crystalline, were synthesized and compared to determine the effect of their respective structures on their activity and stability as anodic catalysts in methanol oxidation. Characterization techniques included TEM, XRD, and EDX. Electrochemical analysis using a glassy carbon disk electrode for cyclic voltamm...

The bulk glass forming alloy Pd43Ni10Cu27P20 is processed into a low-density amorphous metallic foam. Pd43Ni10Cu27P20 is mixed with hydrated B2O3 , which releases gas at elevated temperature and/or low pressure. Very homogeneous foams are achieved due to the high viscosity of the alloy even at its liquidus temperature. By processing at the liquidus temperature and decreasing the pressure to 10 ...

We have studied the phase and structure evolution of the Ti33Cu67 amorphous alloy subjected to electrical pulses of high current density. By varying the pulse parameters, different stages of crystallization could be observed in the samples. Partial polymorphic nanocrystallization resulting in the formation of 5- to 8-nm crystallites of the TiCu2 intermetallic in the residual amorphous matrix oc...

The magnetization processes in binary magnetic/nonmagnetic amorphous alloy Hf57Fe43 are investigated by the detailed measurements including magnetic hysteresis loops, dependence of magnetic moment on temperature and relaxation of magnetic moment. The blocking of magnetization at lower temperatures is accompanied by the slow relaxation of magnetic moment and magnetic hysteresis loops. All of obs...

The magnetic properties of amorphous Gd57A143 ribbon are investigated by ac and dc susceptibility measurements together with low and high field (140 kOe) magnetization study. The alloy is found to be "ferroglass" (re-entrant spin glass) with Curie temperature T,=90 K and ferrcto spin glass transition at Tf=42 K. The Gd moment is found to be 6.5 p s . The radial distribution function is obtained...