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Nanostructured powders of the Ni—Cd system containing 0–50 mol.% Cd obtained by co-reduction of metal salts from aqueous solutions by hydrazine were studied by X-ray diffraction, optical emission spectroscopy and electron microscopy. The reduction leads to formation of polycrystalline particles of 100–350 nm size, consisting of 10–20 nm crystallites. Phase composition of the powders is substantially different from that predicted by equilibrium on the phase diagram. Instead of a two-phase area consisting of Ni—NiCd intermetallide, other phase states are observed. If the system contains up to 6% Cd, the XRD data indicates the presence of a single-phase solid solution with a face centred cubic (fcc)-structure. The increase in the Cd content to ~40% is accompanied by formation of the NiCd5 intermetallide phase, along with a solid solution. In the 40–50% Cd content range, the main phases are NiCd5, as well as a fcc-phase containing up to 18% Cd and characterized by a strong broadening of the diffraction maxima caused by the presence of 2–3 nm crystallites. Furthermore, the system of such composition contains a previously unknown non-stoichiometric phase based on Ni3Cd, having a similar to Cu3Au structure. The results serve to clarify compositions of reduction products and the character of the structural-phase transformations of the intermediate hydroxides and metal products during the reduction process. Based on the obtained data, we proposed a formation scheme for the phases that are unconventional for the studied composition region of the Ni-Cd system. It has been concluded that the main factors determining formation of the reduction products are particle nanoscale dimensionality and occurrence of the reduction process far from equilibrium.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1018–1025, June, 2018.
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Pugachev, V.M., Zaharov, Y.A., Valnyukova, A.S. et al. Nanostructured Ni—Cd powders. Russ Chem Bull 67, 1018–1025 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-018-2173-9
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