| Title | Packing of Russian doll clusters to form a nanometer-scale CsCl-type compound in a Cr-Zn-Sn complex metallic alloy |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Xie, WW, Cava, RJ, Miller, GJ |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Chemistry C |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pagination | 7215-7221 |
| Date Published | 08 |
| Type of Article | Article |
| ISBN Number | 2050-7526 |
| Accession Number | WOS:000406376000010 |
| Keywords | al, density-functional calculations, icosahedra, Materials Science, nazn13 structure type, physical-properties, physics, quasi-crystal |
| Abstract | that form the resulting nanometer-scale CsCl-type structure. Evaluating the electronic structure of this complex alloy structure yielded an alternative description, involving a 3-d network of vertex-connected, Cr-centered icosahedra and fragments of bcc metals. This description closely parallels the effective chemical bonding interactions, allowing for an understanding of the stability of this CMA. Magnetic and Seebeck coefficient measurements on self-flux grown crystals of Cr22Zn72Sn24 show it to be paramagnetic and metallic, in agreement with the results of electronic structure calculations. |
| DOI | 10.1039/c7tc01967j |
| Custom 1 | Complex States |
| Custom 2 | SIF |
