This work wax financially supported by the French-Chinese Advanced Research Program on Materials (PRA MX 99/04); and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 59971014 and 50071013)
A pseudo-ternary alloy system was constructed by combining an icosahedralquasicrystal (IQC), a decagonal quasicrystal (DQC), and Zr into one alloy system. Differentproportions of Zr were added to pseudo-binary alloy I...