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Co80Ni20 powder mixture was mechanically alloyed by high-energy planetary ball milling, starting from elemental Co and Ni metal powders. The morphological, microstructural, thermal and magnetic properties of the milled powders were characterised respectively by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and vibratory sample magnetometry. In addition to a highly disordered phase, two face-centred cubic (FCC) and hexagonal close-packed (HCP), solid solutions, FCC Co(Ni), FCC Ni(Co) and HCP Co(Ni), are observed after 3 h of milling. Their grain sizes decrease with increase in milling time attaining, at 48 h of milling, 12 nm, 25 nm and 10 nm, respectively. Beyond a certain milling time, no further refinement of the microstructure occurs and the morphological equilibrium is usually given by a bimodal particle size distribution. Magnetic measurements of the milled Co80Ni20 alloy powder exhibit a soft ferromagnetic character where the magnetic parameters are sensitive to the milling time mainly due to the particle size refinement as well as the formation of Co(Ni) and Ni(Co) solid solutions. Both the saturation magnetisation ( M s) and coercivity ( H c) were found to decrease with milling time, attaining the values of M s = 126 emu/g and H c = 60 Oe after 48 h of milling.
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Loudjani, N., Benchiheub, M. & Bououdina, M. Structural, Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Co80Ni20 Alloy Prepared by Mechanical Alloying. J Supercond Nov Magn 29, 2717–2726 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-016-3541-z
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