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Scandium overtakes zirconium

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 435–436 (2006)Cite this article

Nanoscale core–shell precipitates within multicomponent alloys are known to confer strength and thermal stability beyond that expected from the constituent materials. Their formation mechanism has finally been revealed to involve a combination of thermodynamic and kinetic processes.

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Figure 1: Simplified schematic representation of core–shell precipitates in Al-Sc-Zr alloys.

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Voorhees, P. Scandium overtakes zirconium. Nature Mater 5, 435–436 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1663

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