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Size effect in Fe-Ni-alloy nanoclusters has been studied by the molecular-dynamics (MD) method using multiparticle interatomic interaction potentials. It is shown that the α-γ transformation in nanoparticles with sizes d>3.5 nm proceeds by the mechanism of nucleation at grain boundaries and propagation of fcc-phase plates. As a result of the transformation, a twinned lamellar domain structure is formed. In particles with sizes 3.0<d<3.5 nm, the α-γ transformation is accompanied by radial-symmetry atomic movements that are close to those characteristic of the Bain scheme. This results in the formation of a single-domain fcc phase. In nanoparticles with sizes 1.5<d<3.0 nm, the α-γ transformation proceeds via an intermediate state that is retained within a temperature range of a few hundreds of kelvins and is characterized by an incomplete phase transformation. It has been found that in Fe-Ni clusters with sizes d≤1.5 nm, the α-γ transformation does not occur. During heating, the initial bcc configuration turns into an icosahedral one through polytetrahedral or amorphous-like configuration.
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Original Russian Text © L. E. Kar’kina, I.N. Kar’kin, Yu.N. Gornostyrev, 2006, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2006, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 146–157.
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Kar’kina, L.E., Kar’kin, I.N. & Gornostyrev, Y.N. Structural transformations in Fe-Ni-alloy nanoclusters: Results of molecular-dynamic-simulation. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 101, 130–140 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X06020062
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