The superfine Fe–B–Si–Mo and Fe–B–Zr–Nb alloys were prepared by liquidus casting in which the levitation melting combining with the rapid solidification was used. The melt was poured into a copper mold at various temperatures, and a superfine granular microstructure was obtained at liquidus temperature. The behavior of Cu and Ag addition to Fe–B–Si–Mo and Fe–B–Zr–Nb alloys was studied. Both adding Cu and Ag to Fe–B–Si–Mo and Fe–B–Zr–Nb alloys had influence on refining the alloys. The refinement effect of adding Cu is stronger than that of adding Ag in Fe–B–Zr–Nb alloy.
Amorphous Ni50Pd40Si10 alloy powder was prepared by mechanical alloying. The surface states and catalytic activities of amorphous and crystalline Ni50Pd40Si10 alloy powder pretreated with hydrofluoric acid (HF) solution were studied. The results show that amorphous Ni-Pd-Si alloy powder was easily prepared by mechanical alloying. After treating with HF solution, the number of Pd atoms on the surface of amorphous Ni–Pd–Si powder was obviously higher than that of the crystalline alloy and catalytic activity of amorphous Ni–Pd–Si powder was higher than that of the crystalline one by three times.
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