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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 140405, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/140405 Research Article Effects of the Nanostructured Fe-V-Nb Modificators on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Si-Mn Steel Tiebao Wang, Chunxiang Cui, Kuo Jia, and Lichen Zhao School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, No.8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, China Correspondence should be addressed to Chunxiang Cui, hutcui@ Received 20 May 2012; Revised 24 July 2012; Accepted 25 July 2012 Academic Editor: Alireza Khataee Copyright © 2012 Tiebao Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The nanostructured Fe-V-Nb master alloy was prepared in vacuum rapid quenching furnace and then was added in the steel melts as modificators before casting. Next, the effects of the nanostructured Fe-V-Nb modificators on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the steel were studied. The results show that the grain size of the steel has been effectively refined, which is mainly because the dispersed nanoscale particles can produce more nucleation sites during the solidification of the liquid steel. Tensile properties and fracture morphology reveal that the yield strength and toughness of the steel modified by nanostructured Fe-V-Nb modificators are better than that of the microalloyed steel. TEM analysis shows that vanadium and niobium in the modificators exist in the form of (V, Nb) C which effectively increases the nucleation rate and leads to better mechanical properties of the steel. 1. Introduction