Disorder in liquid Cu–Pd alloys

Abstract

The disorder in thermodynamic and microscopic structure of liquid Cu–Pd alloy at 1350 K has been studied using regular associated solution model. For this, we have calculated free energy of mixing (G_M ), activity (a), concentration fluctuation in long wavelength limit [S_CC (0)] and chemical short-range order parameter (α ₁) of liquid Cu–Pd alloy at 1350 K. The energetic and structural asymmetry of liquid Cu–Pd alloys has been successfully explained on the basis of regular associated solution model.

Keywords:

• clusters
• free energy of mixing
• microscopic properties
• binary alloy

Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the University Grant Commission of Nepal.