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A nuclear magnetic resonance study of Al–Mn quasicrystals and related materials

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) results are presented for several aluminum alloy samples prepared using the melt-spinning technique including orthorhombic Al6Mn, Al–Mn quasicrystals both with and without doping with Si and Ru, and a T-phase alloy of Al and Pt. With the exception of the orthorhombic material, all of the NMR spectra show a broad distribution of sites. No features unique to the quasicrystal phase are observed. For the orthorhombic material the quadrupole field parameters are found to be ∥V Q∥ − 1.0±0.1 MHz and η = 0.4±0.1.

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Carduner, K.R., Suits, B.H., Di Verdi, J.A. et al. A nuclear magnetic resonance study of Al–Mn quasicrystals and related materials. Journal of Materials Research 2, 431–435 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1987.0431

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