The Science of Complex Alloy Phases

This book is published in honor of the 2005 Hume–Rothery Award Recipient, Uichiro Mizutani. It emphasizes both theoretical and experimental aspects of electronic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of complex alloy phases. Leading experts provide an assessment of our current understanding of the structural properties of complex materials, including quasicrystalline and amorphous alloys. Special emphasis is placed on our understanding of why nature is able to stabilize complex atomic arrangements and on recent results related to structurally complex alloy phases. These topics, in the spirit of the work carried out by U. Mizutani, constitute the main theme of the book.

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Foreword.
Photo of Prof. Uichiro Mizutani.
KEYNOTE: HUME–ROTHERY RULE IN STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX ALLOY PHASES (U. Mizutani).
SPHERICAL PERIODICITY, A GENERAL FEATURE OF MATTER ATITS EARLY STAGES OF FORMATION (P. HSussler, J. Barzola–Quiquia, D. Hauschild, J. Rauchhaupt, M. Stiehler, and M. Hackert).
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS IN RANDOM METALLIC ALLOYS (I.A. Abrikosov, T. Marten, and W. Olovsson).
FIRST–PRINCIPLES STUDY FROM ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE TO MICROSTRUCTURE (T. Mohri).
CHARACTERISTIC STRUCTURES OF BULK METALLIC GLASSES (E. Matsubara, T. Ichitsubo, A. Hirata, and Y. Hirotsu).
SUB–NANOSCALE STRUCTURAL ORIGIN OF THE STABILITY OF THE Pd–Ni–P MODEL BULK METALLIC GLASS (F.M. Alamgir, H. Jain, D. Williams, and R.B. Schwarz).
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE–BASED APPROACHES TO METALLICGLASS STABILITY (D.M.C. Nicholson, M. Fuentes–Cabrera, M. Widom, Y. Wang, and M. Mihalkovic).
HUME–ROTHERY RULES FOR QUASICRYSTALLINE COMPOUNDS (A.P. Tsai).
ON THE FORMATION OF QUASICRYSTALS IN Zr–Cu–Ni–Al METALLIC GLASSES (U. Köster and R. Janlewing).
HUME–ROTHERY RULE AS A FORMATION CONDITION OF NEW ICOSAHEDRAL QUAS ICRYTALS (T. Ishimasa).
SEMICONDUCTING Al–TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS (M. Krajcí and J. Hafner).
PSEUDO–GAP AND PROPERTIES OF Al–BASED COMPLEX AND APERIODIC COMPOUNDS (E. Belin–Ferr&eactue; and J.M. Dubois).
ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF THE PSEUDO–GAP Fe2VAl SYSTEM (Y. Nishino).
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX spd HUME–ROTHERYPHASES IN TRANSITION–METAL ALUMINIDES (G. Trambly de Laissardiére, D. Nguyen–Manh, and D. Mayou).
PHASE STABILITY IN REFRACTORY METAL SILICIDES (R. Sakidja and J.H. Perepezko).
PREDICTION OF SITE PREFERENCE AND PHASE STABILITY OF TRANSITION METAL BASED FRANK–KASPER PHASES (M.H.F. Sluiter, A. Pasturel, and Y. Kawazoe).
Author E–Mail Index.
Author Index.
Subject Index.