Abstract
In the present work, we employed a high-energy mill which is capable of milling with intensities up to 150 G (where G is the gravity of the earth) in ambient temperatures up to 300 °C. Phase transformation diagrams were constructed as functions of milling intensity and ambient temperature for three representative systems: Mg 48Al 15Zn 37, Ni 50Zn 50 and pure Se. The ambient temperature measured on the outer wall of the vial was found to coincide well with the true “annealing” temperature which the powdered sample experiences during milling. It is shown that both the milling intensity and ambient temperature affect substantially the formation rate of a quasicrystal in the MgAlZn system and that of an amorphous phase in both NiZr and Se. By choosing appropriate conditions, we found the shortest milling times to complete the formation of MgAlZn quasicrystals, amorphous NiZr alloy and Se to be 30 min, 3 h and 20 min respectively.
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