Hydrogen induced phase transitions in amorphous alloys

Abstract Hydrogen induced structure transformations in amorphous alloys ZrPd, ZrRh and ZrRhBe were studied by neutron and X-ray-diffraction technique under gas pressure up to 2 kbar. It was shown that the amorphous alloy Zr 0.7 Pd 0.3 which was hydrogenated at temperature below the temperature of crystallization decomposes into metastable hyper-stoichiometric Pd-hydride with bcc lattice and amorphous hypo-stoichiometric Zr-hydride. The polyamorphous transition (transition between the amorphous phases) was reversible while the formation of metastable phase was not.