Laser synthesis of nanoparticles in organic solvents – products, reactions, and perspectives

• Theo Fromme,
• Sven Reichenberger,
• Katharine M. Tibbetts and
• Stephan Barcikowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 638–663, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.54

• nanocomposites based on sp-hybridized carbon chains [64]. Liang et al. specified the conditions for inhibition of phase crystallization and, hence, the formation of metallic glass nanoparticles in organic solvents, which was attributed to the carbon doping of the amorphous phase as well as carbon shell formation

Relationship between corrosion and nanoscale friction on a metallic glass

• Haoran Ma and
• Roland Bennewitz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 236–244, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.18

• are promising materials for microdevices, although corrosion and friction limit their effectiveness and durability. We investigated nanoscale friction on a metallic glass in corrosive solutions after different periods of immersion time using atomic force microscopy to elucidate the influence of

• ); corrosion; friction; metallic glass; passive film; Introduction Metallic glasses (MGs) exhibit excellent mechanical properties including extraordinary hardness and strength [1][2]. Thus, MGs have emerged as novel wear-resistant materials with high potential in tribological applications [3][4][5][6][7][8

• processes on a metallic glass upon immersion in corrosive solutions. Friction coefficients indicate the development of the passivated inner layer of the surface and the growth of a precipitated and displaceable outer layer. Adhesion indicates the accumulation of charge at their interface. The evolution of

A Ni(OH)₂ nanopetals network for high-performance supercapacitors synthesized by immersing Ni nanofoam in water

• Donghui Zheng,
• Man Li,
• Yongyan Li,
• Chunling Qin,
• Yichao Wang and
• Zhifeng Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 281–293, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.27

• binder-free composite electrode, consisting of Ni(OH)2 nanopetals network, Ni nanofoam interlayer and Ni-based metallic glass matrix (Ni(OH)2/Ni-NF/MG) with sandwich structure and good flexibility, was designed and finally achieved. Microstructure and morphology of the Ni(OH)2 nanopetals were

• provides a new idea for the synthesis of nanostructured Ni(OH)2 by a simple approach and ultra-low cost, which largely extends the prospect of commercial application in flexible or wearable devices. Keywords: dealloying; Ni nanofoam; Ni(OH)2 nanopetals; metallic glass; supercapacitor; Introduction

• no report on the in situ synthesis of nickel hydroxide nanosheets on Ni nanofoam through a simple and environmentally friendly method. In the present work, we propose a simple and environmentally friendly two-step preparation, including the dealloying of Ni40Zr20Ti40 metallic glass in HF solutions

Atomic structure of Mg-based metallic glass investigated with neutron diffraction, reverse Monte Carlo modeling and electron microscopy

• Rafał Babilas,
• Dariusz Łukowiec and
• Laszlo Temleitner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1174–1182, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.119

• , Hungary 10.3762/bjnano.8.119 Abstract The structure of a multicomponent metallic glass, Mg65Cu20Y10Ni5, was investigated by the combined methods of neutron diffraction (ND), reverse Monte Carlo modeling (RMC) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The RMC method, based on the

• the ternary Mg–Cu–Y glasses. Gao et al. [11] performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of the structural evolution of a Mg65Cu25Y10 alloy from liquid to glass state. Moreover, Laws et al. [12] provided an analysis of the dynamic crystallization in Mg65Cu25Y10 bulk metallic glass using

• nanocrystalline structure of a multicomponent alloy was also observed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) using specific techniques of structure observation. Experimental The investigations were conducted on multicomponent Mg65Cu20Y10Ni5 (atom %) metallic glass. The samples were prepared

Deformation-driven catalysis of nanocrystallization in amorphous Al alloys

• Rainer J. Hebert,
• John H. Perepezko,
• Harald Rösner and
• Gerhard Wilde

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1428–1433, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.134

• rearrangements that promote nanocrystal formation during subsequent annealing. This conclusion resonates with earlier literature results. Inoue and coworkers, for example, explained the changes in superconducting properties of their Nb50Zr35Si15 metallic glass after cold rolling with deformation-induced

• metallic glass leads to a distribution of free volume intermediate between a complete localization and a completely uniform distribution [49]. More recent work by Stolpe and coworkers demonstrated that based on measured shear band densities and exothermic heat releases during heating, free volume changes

• must have occurred throughout the metallic glass during cold rolling and not only within shear bands [50]. Recent measurements of time-dependent tracer diffusion along shear bands that showed a non-monotonic behavior with an initial increase of the diffusivity upon relaxation moreover suggest that

Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques III

• Thilo Glatzel and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1052–1054, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.98

• Eva Roblegg and co-workers [20]. The local elastic stiffness and damping of individual phases in a titanium alloys was measured by using atomic force acoustic microscopy (AFAM) and mapping of contact-resonance spectra [21]. Another alloy, namely a Pt containing metallic glass, was characterized by AFM

Lower nanometer-scale size limit for the deformation of a metallic glass by shear transformations revealed by quantitative AFM indentation

• Arnaud Caron and
• Roland Bennewitz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1721–1732, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.176

• Abstract We combine non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging and AFM indentation in ultra-high vacuum to quantitatively and reproducibly determine the hardness and deformation mechanisms of Pt(111) and a Pt57.5Cu14.7Ni5.3P22.5 metallic glass with unprecedented spatial resolution. Our results on

• plastic deformation mechanisms of crystalline Pt(111) are consistent with the discrete mechanisms established for larger scales: Plasticity is mediated by dislocation gliding and no rate dependence is observed. For the metallic glass we have discovered that plastic deformation at the nanometer scale is

• mechanisms are not activated by indentation. In the case of metallic glass, we conclude that the energy stored in the stressed volume during nanometer-scale indentation is insufficient to account for the interfacial energy of a shear band in the glassy matrix. Keywords: AFM indentation; dislocation

Mapping of elasticity and damping in an α + β titanium alloy through atomic force acoustic microscopy

• M. Kalyan Phani,
• Anish Kumar,
• T. Jayakumar,
• Walter Arnold and
• Konrad Samwer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 767–776, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.79

• distributed mass model with damped flexural modes on amorphous PdCuSi metallic glass. The solution of the characteristic dispersion equation of the ‘cantilever dynamics’ model was presented in many publications, also in [24]: where The subscripts 1, 2 used here are for L1 and L2 and hold for all A, B, C and

Influence of grain size and composition, topology and excess free volume on the deformation behavior of Cu–Zr nanoglasses

• Daniel Şopu and
• Karsten Albe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 537–545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.56

• -deformed metallic glasses [11]. Consequently, the NG exhibits a more homogeneous plastic deformation carried by a pattern of multiple shear bands [12] as compared to the bulk metallic glass (BMG), where plastic deformation is well localized in a few dominant shear bands. The influence of interfaces on the

• the case of Cu-rich metallic glass (≈2%). Similar results have been found by Ritter et al. in the case of shear bands in Cu36Zr64 glass [17]. Here, the increase in the free volume in the shear band was not related to the decrease of densely packed FI cluster inside the shear bands as found for the

• case of Cu-rich metallic glass. In [17] it has been shown that the volume expansion inside the shear band is related to the creation of new FI clusters which show a lower packing density. The creation of these new less densely packed FI clusters fully compensate the destruction of the original

On the structure of grain/interphase boundaries and interfaces

• K. Anantha Padmanabhan and
• Herbert Gleiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1603–1615, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.172

• -angle boundary, with only a difference in the free volume fraction, the proportion of structural and basic units, the spatial distribution of these units and the free volume. The experimental observation (S. V. Divinski, personal communication) that diffusivity in melt-quenched metallic glass is between

Nanoglasses: a new kind of noncrystalline materials

• Herbert Gleiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 517–533, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.61

• were investigated: (1) a melt-quenched ribbon of a Sc75Fe25 metallic glass, and (2) an as-prepared Sc75Fe25 nanoglass. The stress–strain plots of these two glasses are displayed in Figure 17. As may be seen, the glassy ribbon exhibits brittle fracture at a strain of around 5% and stresses between about

• fracture stresses were also noted if numerous shear bands had been introduced in metallic glasses by cold rolling prior to the deformation tests. Similarly, Takayama [49] observed work-hardening phenomena in highly drawn metallic glass wires, and attributed this behavior to the intersection of shear bands

• . Moreover, work hardening of glasses has also been reported for glassy composites with reinforcing crystalline phase [50] and for glasses containing microstructural heterogeneities [46]. MD simulations: Recent studies [51][52] of the mechanical properties of a Cu64Zr36 nanoglass and of a bulk metallic glass

Structural and thermoelectric properties of TMGa₃ (TM = Fe, Co) thin films

• Sebastian Schnurr,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Valeriy Y. Verchenko and
• Andrei V. Shevelkov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 461–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.54

• thermoelectric behavior is already very close to that of pure CoGa3 supporting the idea of a metallic glass in that case. Unfortunately, S(T) results for crystalline bulk CoGa3 samples are not available to the best of our knowledge, although because of the expected metallic behavior of that system [9] small S

• amorphous structure with still semiconducting properties, one would expect amorphous FeGa3 to be semiconducting as well. In marked contrast with that expectation, however, one finds in that case the behavior of a typical metallic glass: Much smaller resistivity than what would be expected for a