Materials Research Letters (Sep 2017)

Ni-P nanoglass prepared by multi-phase pulsed electrodeposition

  • Chunyu Guo,
  • Yini Fang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Si Lan,
  • Guo Peng,
  • Xun-li Wang,
  • Horst Hahn,
  • Herbert Gleiter,
  • Tao Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2016.1264495
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 5
pp. 293 – 299

Abstract

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Ni-P nanoglass consisting of nanometer-sized amorphous grains separated by amorphous interfaces was prepared by a specially designed multi-phase pulsed electrodeposition technique. The microstructure of the deposited Ni-P nanoglass was confirmed by X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, small-angle X-ray scattering, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The formation of the Ni-P nanoglass, which is characterized by inhomogeneities on the nanometer length scale, is achieved via proper control of the rate of cluster formation and cluster growth by a multi-phase pulsed electrodeposition process.

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