El papel de una fase interfacial de dos capas en la fragilidad del metal líquido

Jian Luo1, Huikai Cheng, Kaveh Meshinchi Asl

  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 20634, USA. jluo@alum.mit.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 24, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

Los metales líquidos pueden causar la falla de los metales dúctiles. Los investigadores descubrieron una fase interfacial de dos capas en el níquel infundido con bismuto, revelando la causa a nivel atómico de esta fragilidad y ofreciendo nuevas estrategias de control.

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