A. Cziraki et al., THERMAL-STABILITY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE NICKEL ELECTRODEPOSITS - DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY, TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY AND MAGNETIC STUDIES, Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 179, 1994, pp. 531-535
The grain-growth process of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni foils
upon heating has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DS
C), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD)
. The direct structural observations have shown that the exothermic ca
lorimetric peak detected at about 600 K corresponds to a grain growth
process. Furthermore, the TEM pictures indicate that dislocation loops
are formed during grain growth. An almost complete recovery of the Cu
rie point has also been observed, although its correlation with the st
ructural changes is still to be revealed.