TY - CONF A1 - Yusenko, Kirill A1 - Smekhova, A. A1 - Kuzmin, A. T1 - Extended X-Ray absorption fine structure (exafs) to study local constitution of high-entropy alloys N2 - Modern design of superior multi-functional alloys composed of several principal components requires in-depth studies of their local structure for developing desired macroscopic properties. Herein, peculiarities of atomic arrangements on the local scale and electronic states of constituent elements in the single-phase face-centered cubic (fcc)- and body-centered cubic (bcc)-structured high-entropy Alx-CrFeCoNi alloys (x = 0.3 and 3, respectively) are explored by element-specific X-ray absorption spectroscopy in hard and soft X-ray energy ranges. Simulations based on the reverse Monte Carlo approach allow to perform a simultaneous fit of extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectra recorded at K absorption edges of each 3d constituent and to reconstruct the local environment within the first coordination shells of absorbers with high precision. T2 - SPP2006: ordering in high-entropy alloys CY - Online meeting DA - 05.10.2021 KW - EXAFS KW - High-entropy alloys PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-54015 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yusenko, Kirill A1 - Zvereva, V. A1 - Martynova, S. A1 - Asanov, I. A1 - La Fontaine, C. A1 - Roudenko, O. A1 - Gubanov, A. A1 - Plyusnin, P. A1 - Korenev, S. A1 - Asanova, T. T1 - Insight of the thermal decomposition of ammonium hexahalogenoiridates(IV) and hexachloroiridate(III) N2 - Thermal decomposition of (NH4)3[IrCl6]·H2O, (NH4)2[IrCl6] and (NH4)2[IrBr6] in reductive and inert atmospheres has been investigated in situ using quick-EXAFS and temperature-resolved powder X-ray diffraction. For the first time, (NH4)2[Ir(NH3)Cl5] and (NH4)2[Ir(NH3)Br5] have been proven as intermediates of thermal decomposition of (NH4)3[IrCl6]·H2O, (NH4)2[IrCl6] and (NH4)2[IrBr6]. Thermal degradation of (NH4)2[IrCl6] and (NH4)2[IrBr6] is a more complex process as suggested previously and includes simultaneous formation of (NH4)2[Ir(NH3)Cl5] and (NH4)2[Ir(NH3)Br5] intermediates mixed with metallic iridium. In the inert atmosphere, complexes (NH4)[Ir(NH3)2Cl4] and (NH4)[Ir(NH3)2Br4] as well as [Ir(NH3)3Br3] were proposed as possible intermediates before formation of metallic iridium particles KW - Thermal decomposition KW - Iridium compounds KW - EXAFS KW - In situ PXRD PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CP02743J VL - 22 IS - 40 SP - 22923 EP - 22934 AN - OPUS4-51224 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fantin, Andrea A1 - Lepore, G. O. A1 - Widom, M. A1 - Kasatikov, S. A1 - Manzoni, Anna Maria T1 - How Atomic Bonding Plays the Hardness Behavior in the Al–Co–Cr–Cu–Fe–Ni High Entropy Family N2 - A systematic study on a face‐centered cubic‐based compositionally complex alloy system Al–Co–Cr–Cu–Fe–Ni in its single‐phase state is carried out, where a mother senary compound Al₈Co₁₇Cr₁₇Cu₈Fe₁₇Ni₃₃ and five of its suballoys, obtained by removing one element at a time, are investigated and exhaustively analyzed determining the contribution of each alloying element in the solid solution. The senary and the quinaries are compared using experimental techniques including X‐ray absorption spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and first principles hybrid Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics simulations. Chemical short‐range order and bond length distances have been determined both at the experimental and computational level. Electronic structure and local atomic distortions up to 5.2 Å have been correlated to the microhardness values. A linear regression model connecting hardness with local lattice distortions is presented. KW - High entropy alloys KW - EXAFS KW - Short-range order KW - Microhardness KW - Alloy design KW - Transmission electron microscopy KW - Lattice distortion PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-593333 DO - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202300225 SN - 2688-4046 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Wiley CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-59333 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fantin, Andrea A1 - Orazio Lepore, G. A1 - Manzoni, Anna Maria A1 - Kasatikov, S. A1 - Scherb, T. A1 - Huthwelker, T. A1 - d'Acapito, F. A1 - Schumacher, G. T1 - Short-range chemical order and local lattice distortion in a compositionally complex alloy N2 - This work presents an X-ray absorption spectroscopy study on a single-phase state of the Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33 compositionally complex alloy, focused on the local crystal structure around each alloying element. The comparison of 1st shell bond lengths, obtained by the analysis of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measured at the K-edges of each alloying element, indicates that Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33 crystallizes in a distorted arrangement of an fcc lattice. A modest bond length dependence of the alloying elements with increasing atomic number is observed, with minima and maxima at Cr/Co, and Al/Cu, respectively. 1st shell bond lengths spread over ~0.03 Å; consequently, such variations cannot result in lattice distortions greater than ~0.04 Å. EXAFS results clearly indicate short-range order in the alloy: pairing of Al with Ni and Cu is favored, correlating well with a g’ precipitate composition (Al-Ni-Cu rich) reported in previous work, while Al-Cr bonding is unfavored and no Al-Al pairs are observed. Electronic structure information was obtained through comparison between near-edge regions of alloying Elements and corresponding pure metals. Intensity comparison of K-edge features agree with a charge variation of p states in Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33, where Ni and Cu act as p states electron acceptors, suggesting an orbital hybridization with Al, responsible for a shrinkage in Al metallic radius in the alloy by 0.17 Å. KW - High entropy alloys KW - EXAFS KW - Compositionally complex alloys PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.04.034 VL - 193 SP - 329 EP - 337 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-50830 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fantin, Andrea A1 - Cakir, Cafer Tufan A1 - Kasatikov, S. A1 - Schumacher, G. A1 - Manzoni, Anna Maria T1 - Effects of heat treatment on microstructure, hardness and local structure in a compositionally complex alloy N2 - Unlike conventional alloys, high entropy alloys are characterized by one or more solid solution phase(s) without a clearly defined solvent, all element contribute to the matrix in a way that is still not entirely understood. In addition, it is not known to what extent classic thermodynamic rules can be applied to these multi-element alloys, especially concerning the question about what factor incites the matrix to undergo a phase transformation. This work tackles directly some of these aspects on a chosen alloy, Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33 (at.%), which presents a high temperature single-phase γ state and a two-phase state with γ′ precipitates, above and below 900 ◦C, respectively. A combined investigation via microstructural observations, hardness testing, X-ray absorption and photoelectron spectroscopy was carried out above the γ′ formation temperature. Hardness values are independent of the annealing temperatures, microstructural analysis shows no phase formation and X-ray absorption spectroscopy does not reveal observable changes in neither local atomic nor electronic structure, indicating that approaching γ′ formation temperature is not influenced by atomic or electronic rearrangements. Interestingly, short-range chemical order remains quantitatively compatible at any annealing temperature in the single-phase γ state, and the observed preferred pairs Al–Cu and Al–Ni in the γ state match with the γ’ precipitates composition below 900 ◦C. KW - High entropy alloys KW - EXAFS KW - Short range order KW - Vickers hardness PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.125432 SN - 0254-0584 VL - 276 SP - 125432 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-53760 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fantin, Andrea A1 - Manzoni, Anna Maria A1 - Springer, H. A1 - Darvishi Kamachali, Reza A1 - Maaß, Robert T1 - Local lattice distortions and chemical short-range order in MoNbTaW N2 - Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) conducted on an equiatomic MoNbTaW bcc medium-entropy alloy that was annealed at 2273 K reveals unexpectedly small 1st and 2nd shell element-specific lattice distortions. An experimental size-mismatch parameter, δexp, is determined to be ca. 50% lower than the corresponding calculated value. Around W, short-range order (SRO) preferring 4d elements in the 1st and 2nd shells persists. A Nb-W ordering is found, which is reminiscent of ordering emerging at lower temperatures in the B2(Mo,W;Ta,Nb)- and B32(Nb,W)-phases. With high-temperature ordering preferences in fcc also foreshadowing low-temperature phase, these findings suggest a general feature of high-temperature SRO. KW - High Entropy Alloys KW - Short-range order KW - Lattice distortions KW - EXAFS PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-598164 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2024.2326014 SN - 2166-3831 VL - 12 IS - 5 SP - 346 EP - 354 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-59816 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yusenko, Kirill A1 - Kabelitz, Anke A1 - Schokel, Alexander A1 - Wagner, Ralf A1 - Prinz, Carsten A1 - Kemnitz, E A1 - Emmerling, Franziska A1 - Krahl, Thoralf A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana T1 - Local Structure of Europium-Doped Luminescent Strontium Fluoride Nanoparticles: Comparative X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Diffraction Study N2 - Rare-earth based luminescent materials are key functional components for the rational design of light-conversion smart devices. Stable Eu3+-doped strontium fluoride (SrF2) nanoparticles were prepared at room temperature in ethylene glycol. Their luminescence depends on the Eu content and changes after heat treatment. The crystallinity of heat-treated material increases in comparison with as-synthesized samples. Particles were investigated in solution using X-ray diffraction, small-angle X-ray scattering, and X-ray spectroscopy. After heat treatment, the size of the disordered nanoparticles increases together with a change of their local structure. Interstitial fluoride ions can be localized near Eu3+ ions. Therefore, non-radiative relaxation from other mechanisms is decreased. Knowledge about the cation distribution is key information for understanding the luminescence properties of any material. KW - SrF2 KW - EXAFS KW - Eu PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-540094 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202100281 VL - 7 IS - 11 SP - 1221 EP - 1229 PB - Wiley Online Library AN - OPUS4-54009 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Yusenko, Kirill A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana A1 - Radtke, Martin T1 - Studies of high-entropy alloys using x-ray absorption fine structure at the bamline N2 - BAM line is multipurpose high-energy beamline. To extend studies of multicomponent alloys using EXAFS we perform own research and user experiments requiring multiedge spectroscopy, high-temperature and chemically aggressive sample environments. Our study of multicomponent alloys and high-entropy alloys open new perspectives in understanding their reactivity, corrosion, phase transformations and local ordering. T2 - SPP2006: large scale facilities CY - Online meeting DA - 02.11.2021 KW - Synchrotron studies KW - High-entropy alloys KW - EXAFS PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-54016 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Qureshi, Navid A1 - Morrow, Ryan A1 - Eltoukhy, Samar A1 - Grinenko, Vadim A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana A1 - Onykiienko, Yevhen A. A1 - Kulbakov, Anton A1 - Inosov, Dmytro S. A1 - Adler, Peter A1 - Valldor, Martin T1 - Noncollinear Magnetic Structures in the Chiral Antiperovskite β-Fe2SeO N2 - We present the magnetic properties of the chiral, polar, andpossibly magnetoelectric antiperovskite β-Fe2SeO as derived from magnet-ization and specific-heat measurements as well as from powder neutrondiffraction and Mössbauer experiments. Our macroscopic data unambig-uously reveal two magnetic phase transitions at TN1 ≈ 103 K and TN2 ≈ 78K, while Rietveld analysis of neutron powder diffraction data reveals anoncollinear antiferromagnetic structure featuring magnetic moments inthe a−b plane of the trigonal structure and a ferromagnetic moment alongc. The latter is allowed by symmetry between TN1 and TN2, weakly visible inthe magnetization data yet unresolvable microscopically. While theintermediate phase can be expressed in the trigonal magnetic spacegroup P31, the magnetic ground state is modulated by a propagation vectorq = (1/2 1/2 0) resulting in triclinic symmetry and an even more complexlow-temperature spin arrangement which is also reflected in the Mö ssbauer hyperfine patterns indicating additional splitting of Fesites below TN2. The complex noncollinear spin arrangements suggest interesting magnetoelectric properties of this polar magnet. KW - EXAFS KW - Antiperovskite KW - Magnetic structure PY - 2024 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02916 SN - 0020-1669 VL - 63 IS - 48 SP - 22712 EP - 22720 PB - American Chemical Society (ACS) AN - OPUS4-63116 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Yusenko, Kirill A1 - Emmerling, Franziska A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana T1 - X-Ray absorption spectroscopy to study multicomponent materials N2 - Detailed study of multicomponent systems in solid-state as well as in solution using X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy is one of the most common topics in modern materials chemistry. 5-6 component high-entropy alloys such as fcc- and bcc-structured AlxCoCrFeNi and fluorescent nanoparticles based on fluorite-structured SrF2 doped by rare-earth metals in organic solutions have high complexity and their local structure cannot be resolved using only diffraction. X-ray absorption spectroscopy should be applied to understand peculiarities in their local structure and make a link between structure on short and long ranges and their macroscopic properties. Here, based on two representativee examples, we discuss how a combination of several X-ray absorption edges might give new insights into complex materials. T2 - Virtual meeting of the African Light Source CY - Online meeting DA - 15.11.2021 KW - EXAFS KW - Synchrotron studies PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-54014 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -