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Tohru Yamasaki

Takayasu Mochizuki

A composite alloy has a three-dimensional periodic hierarchical structure having hard and soft metallic phases periodically arranged with a period having a length ranging from a nanometer scale to a millimeter scale. It is preferable that the three-dimensional periodic hierarchical structure has an alloy composition sloped microscopically within the period. The three-dimensional periodic hierarchical structure may be formed by periodically arranging rod-like hard and soft metallic phases having a width and a thickness ranging from a nanometer scale to a millimeter scale so that their side surfaces are adjacent to one another.

Composite alloy having a three-dimensional periodic hierarchical structure and method of producing the same

A laminated metal thin plate produced by electrodeposition is composed of a plurality of metal layers provided by at least two kinds of materials different in composition from each other. The laminated metal thin plate includes a first layer excellent in mechanical characteristics and/or chemical resistance and a second layer excellent in electrical characteristics such as electrical conductivity. The first and the second layers are adhered to each other in atomic level directly at their interface, with composition gradient at their interface, or with an adherence buffer layer such as a copper thin film interposed therebetween. The first layer is at first deposited on an electrode substrate. The second layer is deposited on the first layer. Deposition is repeatedly carried out in such a way that the first layers on opposite sides of the second layer are equal in thickness. Finally, the electrode substrate is dissolved and removed.

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