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Nanocrystal Growth in Thermally Treated Fe75Ni2Si8B13C2 Amorphous Alloy

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Thermal treatment of amorphous Fe75Ni2Si8B13C2 alloy leads to crystallization of the stable α-Fe(Si) and Fe2B as well as to the metastable Fe3B phase. The study of the mechanism of crystal growth of the α-Fe(Si) phase revealed that the mechanism of α-Fe(Si) growth changes from two dimensional in the early stage to one dimensional in the later stage of crystallization. The Fe2B phase was found to crystallize through two independent routes: from the amorphous phase and from the metastable Fe3B phase, which leads to a different mechanism of crystal growth for each route. Both routes exhibit a change in the mechanism of crystal growth: from two dimensional to one dimensional and from three dimensional to two dimensional, respectively. The respective mechanisms of crystal growth correlate well with the observed changes in preferential orientation of the crystallites of the Fe2B phase.

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The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia, under Project 172015, and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Project No. 1M0512.

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  1. Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia

    Dragica M. Minić (Professor) & Vladimir A. Blagojević (Research Scientist)

  2. Military Technical Institute in Belgrade, 11001, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dušan M. Minić (Research Scientist)

  3. Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Brno, 61662, Czech Republic

    Bohumil David (Senior Research Scientist), Naděžda Pizúrová (Research Scientist) & Tomáš Žák (Senior Research Scientist)

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Minić, D.M., Blagojević, V.A., Minić, D.M. et al. Nanocrystal Growth in Thermally Treated Fe75Ni2Si8B13C2 Amorphous Alloy. Metall Mater Trans A 43, 3062–3069 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-012-1161-1

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