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Properties of mass transport in liquid Al80Cu20 were measured over a broad temperature range of more than 500 K by means of oscillating cup viscometry and quasielastic neutron scattering. The shear viscosity and the coefficient of the Cu self-diffusion exhibit an Arrhenius-type temperature dependence. The activation energy for the viscous flow is 2.4 times smaller than that of the Cu self-diffusion. Below 1400 K, the Cu self-diffusion becomes increasingly smaller than expected from the viscosity data rescaled via the Stokes–Einstein relation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigated the self-diffusion of Ni in liquid Ni, Ni80P20, Pd40Ni40P20, and Pd43Ni10Cu27P20 at temperatures up to 1795 K with incoherent, quasielastic neutron scattering. Values of measured self-diffusion coefficients vary over the accessible temperature ranges as a function of composition only within 10%. Although mixing has a drastic effect on the liquidus temperature and the undercooling capabilities, a relation between these properties and the atomic diffusion in the liquid is not observed. Apparently, diffusive motion is governed by the packing fraction of the atoms, that is very similar in these dense liquids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]