Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Amorphous martensite in β-Ti alloys

  • Long Zhang,
  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Xiaobing Ren,
  • Jürgen Eckert,
  • Yandong Wang,
  • Zhengwang Zhu,
  • Thomas Gemming,
  • Simon Pauly

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02961-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Displacive martensitic transformations through lattice distortion usually involve a change from one crystal structure to another. Here however, the authors “melt” metastable Ti alloys during cooling and show that a martensitic transformation can lead to the formation of an intragranular amorphous phase.