Nature Communications (May 2022)

Atomistic mechanism of phase transformation between topologically close-packed complex intermetallics

  • Huixin Jin,
  • Jianxin Zhang,
  • Pan Li,
  • Youjian Zhang,
  • Wenyang Zhang,
  • Jingyu Qin,
  • Lihua Wang,
  • Haibo Long,
  • Wei Li,
  • Ruiwen Shao,
  • En Ma,
  • Ze Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Han

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30040-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It is challenging to study how topologically close-packed phases (TCPs) transform between one phase to another. Here the authors use atomic-resolved tools to look at the transformation between μ and P phases, revealing an intrinsic link between seemingly unrelated TCP configurations.