“…Several thermodynamic descriptions are available for the Ni-Zn system [11,16,17,18,19,20,21]. However, the stable ordered intermetallic phase β was not described properly using the commonly accepted order-disorder transition model [13,14] in the earlier thermodynamic descriptions [16,17,18,19,20,21]. Xiong et al [11] re-assessed the Ni-Zn binary system by using a two-sublattice order-disorder transition model to describe the β phase.…”