Effects of Nanoparticle Geometry and Temperature on the Structural Evolution in FeCo Nanoalloys


Yalçın M., Mekhrabov A., Akdeniz M. V.

ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, cilt.125, ss.600-602, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 125
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12693/aphyspola.125.600
  • Dergi Adı: ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.600-602
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Effects of nanoparticle size (2.0-6.0 rim) and shape (spherical and cubic) on structural characteristic of atomic ordering processes and order-disorder transformation in B2-type ordered equiatomic-FeCo nanoalloys have been studied by combining electronic theory of alloys in the pseudopotential approximation with Ising-type Hamiltonian site exchange Monte Carlo simulation method. Structural evolutions in amorphous nanopaxticles (2-6 nm) of Fe50Co50 alloy have been utilized via molecular dynamic simulations from room temperatures to 1700 K temperatures. It has been shown that disordering starts at surface and propagates into volume of nanoparticles with increasing temperature. FeCo nanoparticles with critical dimensions more than 5 nm have order-disorder transformation behavior almost similar with bulk B2-FeCo alloys irrespective of their shape. Molecular dynamic analyses indicate that short- and medium-range ordered atomic structures exist in quenched Fe50Co50 nanoparticles at room temperature. Deformed bcc structures and deformed icosahedron structures are most probable atomic configurations for 2, 4, 6 nm particles of Fe50Co50 nanoalloy.