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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
This report continues previous studies that show melt spun Zr80Pt20 ribbons having oxygen contents ranging from <200 to approximately 5000 mass ppm form various meta-stable phases during quenching. In the presence of sufficient oxygen, a big cube Zr6Pt3O phase forms, but this structure is de-stabilized towards an icosahedral quasicrystalline structure at lower oxygen levels. Further reduction of oxygen promotes increasingly stable Zr-Pt bonds, and a meta-stable β-Zr(Pt) structure is formed.