Abstract
The change of the specific surface area in porous Ni59Zr 20Ti16Si2Sn3 metallic glass (MG) upon partial crystallization was investigated. The observed increase in the surface area of the annealed Ni-based MG foams is due to the formation of homogeneously distributed Ni10(Zr,Ti)7 rod-shape intermetallic phases with nominal diameters around 250 nm and ∼800 nm length on the surface of MG struts during the crystallization. For longer annealing, the specific surface area decreases again due to a change of the morphology of the crystals from rod-like to disc-like appearance, thus suggesting an optimum regime for increasing the specific surface area upon isothermal annealing at a given temperature.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 582-590 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Philosophical Magazine Letters |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2011 |
Keywords
- crystallization
- foams
- intermetallics
- metallic glasses
- metastable phases
- porous media
- powder metallurgy
- rapidly solidified materials