title: Comment on 'Electronic structure of Mo(1-x)Rexalloys studied through resonant photoemission spectroscopy'.
abstract: Further analysis of the resonant photoemission data, found within Sundar et al (2016 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 315502), show the intensities do not follow the elemental composition in the Mo1-xRexalloy. Similar trends are observed in the published data for Gd1-xNixalloy films. The analysis of the resonant photoemission intensities suggests that Mo in the Mo1-xRexalloy and Gd in the Gd1-xNixalloy have nearest neighbor bonds to Re and Ni respectively. This means the A-B bond is favored over the average of the A-A bond and the B-B bond in these binary alloys, so that the short range order favors strong local ordering rather than clustering alloys.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Jorgensen Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
authors.forename: Prescott
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Dowben