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Alternate mechanism for the spontaneous formation of freestanding Ga nanoribbons on Cr2GaC surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2006

ZhengMing Sun  and
Michel W. Barsoum
ZhengMing Sun*
Affiliation:
Materials Research Institute for Sustainable Development, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya 463-8560 Japan
Michel W. Barsoum*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: z.m.sun@aist.go.jp
b)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: barsoumw@drexel.edu
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Abstract

Herein we propose an alternate simpler mechanism for a new phenomenon we reported recently in this journal [Z.M. Sun, S. Gupta, H. Ye, and M.W. Barsoum, J. Mater. Res.20, 2618 (2005)]. The presence of freestanding Ga nanoribbons on Cr2GaC surfaces were found to be the leftover skins of Ga whiskers or spheres that were reabsorbed into the Cr2GaC grain boundaries, most likely as a result of their melting.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 21 , Issue 7 , July 2006 , pp. 1629 - 1631
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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