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Abstract In order to effectively polish the surface of the titanium alloy workpiece, a novel type of iron nitride magnetic abrasives was designed, prepared and characterized. Theoretically, first-principles were used to analyze the effects of phase compositions of iron nitrogen compounds on the mechanical and magnetic properties of the abrasive, and ε-Fe 3 N and γ′-Fe 4 N were determined as the grinding phase compositions with the simultaneously improved properties of hardness, ductility and magnetism. In the experiments, the core-shell structured iron nitrogen compounds were prepared by nitriding the iron powders of about 250 μm with ammonia at 600 °C, and the effects of nitriding time, ammonia pressure and cooling method on the product were investigated. The composition, morphology, magnetic properties and mechanical properties of the product were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), magnetometer and nanoindenter, respectively. Under experimental conditions of ammonia pressure of 0.2 Mpa, nitriding time of 3 h and water quenching, the abrasive was obtained with the external grinding phase of ε-Fe 3 N and γ′-Fe 4 N in a thickness of 35.10 μm and the internal ferromagnetic phase of α-Fe. Its magnetic saturation intensity and hardness were 148.5 A m2 kg−1 and 8.15 GPa, respectively. Grinding with this abrasive, the surface roughness of Ti–6Al–4V alloy plate was effectively reduced from 0.305 μm to 0.077 μm. Highlights • Iron nitride magnetic abrasives were designed by first-principles calculations. • Grinding phase was formed in ferromagnetic phase by nitriding Fe powder with NH 3. • Higher NH 3 pressure and water quenching improved the hardness of the abrasives. • Nanoindenter was used for characterizing the hardness of the abrasives. • The abrasives can effectively polish Ti–6Al–4V plate in MAF process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The stress-induced phase transformation and micromechanical behavior of CuZr-based alloy were investigated by in-situ neutron diffraction. The pseudoelastic behavior with a pronounced strain-hardening effect is observed. The retained martensite nuclei and the residual stress obtained from the 1st cycle reduce the stress threshold for the martensitic transformation. A critical stress level is required for the reverse martensitic transformation from martensite to B2 phase. An increase of intensity for the B2 (110) plane in the 1st cycle is caused by the twinning along the {112}<111> twinning system. The convoluted stress partitioning influenced by the elastic and transformation anisotropy along with the newly formed martensite determines the microstress partitioning of the studied CuZr-based alloy. The reversible martensitic transformation is responsible for the pseudoelasticity. The macro mechanical behavior of the pure B2 phase can be divided into 3 stages, which are mediated by the evolvement of the martensitic transformation. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, the morphology, crystallization process and crystal structure of the phase-change material TiSbTe (TST) alloy have been successfully established, which is essential for applying this alloy in phase-change memory. Specifically, atomic force microscopy (AFM) was employed to characterize the as-deposited and post-annealed thin films, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses of the films annealed in situ were used in combination with selected-area electron diffraction (SAED) and radial distribution function (RDF) analyses to investigate the structural evolution from the amorphous phase to the polycrystalline phase. Moreover, the presence of structures with medium-range order in amorphous TST, which is beneficial for high-speed crystallization, was indicated by the structure factors S(Q)s . The crystallization temperature was determined to be approximately 170 °C, and the grain size varied from several to dozens of nanometers. As the temperature increased, particularly above 200 °C, the first single peak of the rG(r) curves transformed into double shoulder peaks due to the increasing impact of the Ti Te bonds. In general, the majority of Ti atoms were doped into the SbTe lattice and tended to form structural defects, whereas the remainder of the Ti atoms aggregated, leading to the appearance of TiTe 2 phase separation, as confirmed by the SAED patterns, high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) images and corresponding energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) mappings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]