Some Basic Results and Techniques of Studying Anomalous Diffusion and Segregation in Metals: Relevance to New Nanofabrication Applications

Abstract

New possible nanotechnology applications of some original developments and results of studying the regularities and micromechanisms (physics) of the hydrogen °uoride gas activa- tor in°uence on oxidation of titanium, zirconium and zirconium-based alloys with niobium, and also - on nitriding, boriding and carbiding a series of refractory metals (Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, W, Ta) are elaborated. The new possible nanotechnology applications of the techniques and physics of creating a compound-like nanosegregation or the liquid-like nanosegregation at grain bound- aries in nanostructured metals, i.e. creating of speci¯c cellular type natural nanocomposites, are considered as well.