Fe–B nanomaterials by mechanochemical synthesis: A Mössbauer study

Abstract The process of phase formation during short-term (80 and 120 min) high-energy ball milling of Fe84B16, Fe80B20, and Fe70B30 powder mixtures was studied by Mossbauer spectroscopy. Hyperfine field Bhf on the nuclei of resonant atoms as a function of the number of boron atoms (nB) in the nearest neighborhood of Fe atoms was also found to be a linear function of nB and for nB = 5–11: Bhf = 33.7 – 2.7nB.