“…Whereas, in the latter case, nanocrystalline Fe 3 B precipitated from liquid phase or amorphous precursor is generally undesirable, mainly because it is magnetically harder than Fe-based solid solution such as α-(Fe, Si) and α-(Fe, Co, Ni). Further, to improve the magnetic properties, alloying has been widely investigated and used [ 4 , 7 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]. It was found that three effects can be achieved by alloying elements to affect the magnetic properties of these materials, as follows: (1) partitioning into phases and directly modifying their magnetic properties; (2) changing phase stability further to affect crystallization behaviors, and consequently influencing the size, distribution, content, and type of phases and (3) accelerating nucleation and/or suppressing the growth of phases by segregation.…”