Icosahedral quasicrystals in Zn-T-Sc (T=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) alloys

Ryo Maezawa, Shiro Kashimoto, Tsutomu Ishimasa

Starting from the Zn17Sc3 cubic approximant, new quasicrystal alloys were searched by replacement of Zn with transition elements, T. In the cases of T=Mn, Fe, Co and Ni, new icosah…