Abstract
A bulk alloy which consists of the single icosahedral quasicrystalline phase (I-phase) in Ti 45Zr 35Ni 17Cu 3 alloy has been fabricated by mechanical alloying and subsequent pulse discharge sintering technique. Crystallographic structure analyses show that the bulk alloy is an I-phase. The transport properties of the bulk alloy are examined, and the results show that the room-temperature thermal conductivity is 5.347 W K −1 m −1, and the electrical conductivity decreases with increasing the temperature from 300 to 450 K. The Seebeck coefficient is negative at the temperature range from 300 to 360 K, and changes to positive from 370 to 450 K. Hall effect measurements indicate the bulk I-phase alloy has a high carrier concentration. The specific heat capacity increases when the temperature increases from 280 to 324 K.
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