Researchers from the Ural State Pedagogical University (UrGPU) have devised a way to create alloys with predefined properties. They synthesized an alloy based on aluminum, nickel, cobalt, copper, and zirconium, containing components in equal proportions. Using carefully selected quenching conditions, the scientists were able to achieve an amorphous state in which the alloy does not have a crystalline structure - in this state, the alloy acquires the best mechanical properties.
«The alloy we have obtained can be used as a material for various devices, for example, electromagnetic sensors. But it can already be said that the formed alloy structure during rapid quenching can provide high indicators of microhardness, strength and corrosion resistance», - said the project manager, senior researcher at UrGPU Boris Rusanov.
Scientists believe that the new method will allow to create critically important components that will replace imported ones.