LOZANO PÉREZ , S.

The nanocrystallisation behaviour and subsequent intermetallics formation of an amorphous Al88-Y4-Ni8 alloy has been studied. A 1 at% of Al or Ni was also substituted by Cu and its effect studied. Differential scanning calorimetry has been used to measure the thermal stability of these amorphous alloys. Transmission electron microscopy...

Mechanical alloying, a ball milling technique where heterogeneous starting powders are homogenized and alloyed, has become a versatile technique for the production of metastable microstructures: nanocrystalline and/or amorphous alloys, supersaturated solid solutions, etc. Ball milling is affected by many experimental parameters and the analysis...

The structural relaxation of multicomponent Fe(Co)SiAlGaPCB amorphous alloys was investigated calorimetrically for annealed samples over a wide temperature range below the glass transition temperature. Upon heating, the annealed samples exhibit an endothermic reaction (enthalpy relaxation) starting around the annealing temperature and...

Mechanical alloyed Fe75Nb10B15 systems, prepared with crystalline or commercial amorphous boron and a similar composition with the same Fe/Nb ratio but no boron, have been studied as a function of milling time in the aim of enhancing the homogenization of boron and determining its role on the mechanical alloying process. Neither boron addition...

The non-isothermal kinetics of primary crystallization processes is studied from numerically generated curves and their predictions have been tested in several nanocrystallization processes. Single processes and transformations involving two overlapped processes in a non-isothermal regime have been generated and deviations from isokinetic...

Influence of Mn addition on the microstructure and hyperfine parameters of amorphous and nanocrystalline Co60(FeMn)18Nb6B16 alloys has been studied. Although Mn addition does not yield significant differences in crystallization kinetics and in the phases formed after each transformation, it seriously affects the partitioning of Co during...

Mechanical alloying of Fe75Nb10B15 and Fe85Nb5B10 systems has been performed from an initial mixture of elemental powders. A bcc supersaturated solid solution is developed during milling for both alloys. However, Fe75Nb10B15 alloy also develops an amorphous phase, which amount increases with milling time. Milled powder samples were compacted at...