Taylor and Francis Group, Philosophical Magazine Letters, 6(94), p. 370-376
DOI: 10.1080/09500839.2014.913818
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Hafnium (Hf) is an important material for a wide range of applications including filaments, electrodes and control rods for nuclear reactors. Based on the equilibrium phase diagram, Hf exists in the form of a hexagonal closed-packed structure at temperature below 1743 °C or a body-centred cubic structure at temperature above 1743 °C. Here, we report the coexistence at ambient temperature of a hexagonal closed-packed structure, a body-centred cubic structure and a face-centred cubic structure with well-defined crystallographic orientation relationships in pure Hf produced by the iodide decomposition method.