2016-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2016 Volume 2: Dubois Intl. Symp. / Complex Metallic Systems

Editors:Kongoli F, Kobe S, Calin M, Dong C
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication Year:2016
Pages:130 pages
ISBN:978-1-987820-38-6
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    Complexity of intermetallic structures - reality or virtuality

    Yuri Grin1;
    1MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FüR CHEMISCHE PHYSIK FESTER STOFFE, Dresden, Germany (Deutschland);
    Type of Paper: Keynote
    Id Paper: 452
    Topic: 36

    Abstract:

    One of the key issues in the further understanding of chemical ad physical behaviors of intermetallic compounds is complexity of their crystal structures. Structural complexity of intermetallic compounds may be described from the points of view of crystallographic features (number of atoms, symmetry), of chemical and crystallographic order/disorder, or of thermodynamic factors (phase diagrams, formation reactions), etc.. On base of crystallographic description, a special family of intermetallic compounds – the so-called complex metallic alloys or phases (CMA) – was defined. Neither electronic nor thermal transport behaviors follow strictly the crystallographic understanding of structural complexity in CMA. Nevertheless, recently was shown that the reduced lattice thermal conductivity of intermetallic type-I clathrates without vacancies and with respect to such with ordered vacancies suggests that disordered vacancies disturb the heat transport more efficiently as the electronic transport. Further insights are achieved considering the spatial separation of regions with different chemical bonding in the content of structural complexity.

    Keywords:

    Complex metallic alloys; electron and atomic transport; electronic conductivity;

    Cite this article as:

    Grin Y. Complexity of intermetallic structures - reality or virtuality. In: Kongoli F, Kobe S, Calin M, Dong C, editors. Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2016 Volume 2: Dubois Intl. Symp. / Complex Metallic Systems. Volume 2. Montreal(Canada): FLOGEN Star Outreach. 2016. p. .