Nano Express
Wettability of amorphous and nanocrystalline Fe78B13Si9 substrates by molten Sn and Bi
1 Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, PR China
2 Department of Functional Materials Research, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, PR China
Nanoscale Research Letters 2011, 6:318 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-318
Published: 8 April 2011Abstract
The wettability of amorphous and annealing-induced nanocrystalline Fe78B13Si9 ribbons by molten Sn and Bi at 600 K was measured using an improved sessile drop method. The results demonstrate that the structural relaxation and crystallization in the amorphous substrates do not substantially change the wettability with molten Bi because of their invariable physical interaction, but remarkably deteriorate the wettability and interfacial bonding with molten Sn as a result of changing a chemical interaction to a physical one for the atoms at the interface.
