Stoichiometric icosahedral phase in the Zn–Mg–Y system
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Materials Research
- Vol. 12 (6), 1468-1471
- https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.1997.0202
Abstract
Stoichiometric composition and formation process of the icosahedral phase in the Zn–Mg–Y system have been studied. The icosahedral phase exhibit a stoichiometric composition in the vicinity of Zn60Mg30Y10. During cooling, (Zn, Mg)5Y phase primarily crystallizes from the melt at ∼960 K and then undergoes a peritectic reaction with the residual Mg-enriched melt (∼820 K) to form the icosahedral phase. The melt with a constant composition close to Mg7Zn3 is in equilibrium with the (Zn, Mg)5Y phase above the peritectic temperature in a wide compositional range.Keywords
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