The mechanical alloying process has been used to prepare nanocrystalline Cu70Fe18Co12 alloy from elemental Cu, Fe and Co powders in a planetary ball mill under argon atmosphere. The interdiffusion of Cu, Fe and Co leads to a heterogeneous solid solution with Cu-Fe-Co rich environments after 12 h of milling. The end product is a mixture of a highly disordered structure, fcc-Cu (Fe-Co), phase having different microstructural and structural parameters. For all the elaborate series, the evolution of coercive field and the remanence according to the time of milling is analyzed. The coercivity, Hc, decreases rapidly up to 8 h of milling to about 0.3 A/m and then the coercivity, increases to a maximum at 54 h. The influence of the time of milling at the resistivity of these alloys is shown.
Ternary Fe72Al26Sn2 and Cu70Fe18Co12 alloys were obtained by mechanical alloying of pure Fe, Al, Sn, Cu and Co powders using a high energy ball mill. X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy supported by magnetic measurements have been applied to follow changes in the microstructure, phase composition and magnetic properties in dependence on milling time. With the increase of milling time all Al and Sn atoms dissolved in the bcc Fe and the final product of the MA process was the nanocrystalline Fe (Al, Sn) solid solution in a metastable state with a large amount of defects and mean crystallite size of 5 nm. However, the obtained crystallite size value is about 10 nm for the ball milled Cu70Fe18Co12 powders. The electron microscope observations show the morphology of powder particles. Magnetic properties of the nanocrystalline mechanically alloyed FeAlSn and CuFeCo were also investigated and were related to the microstructural changes.
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