| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Defect and Phase Transformation Pathway Engineering for Desired Microstructures
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| Presentation Title |
Grain Boundary Segregation for Thermal Stability in Ternary Nanocrystalline Alloys |
| Author(s) |
Sebastian A. Kube, Wenting Xing, Arvind Kalidindi, Sungwoo Sohn, Amit Datye, Dor Amram, Christopher Schuh, Jan Schroers |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Sebastian A. Kube |
| Abstract Scope |
Nanocrystalline alloys can be stabilized through selective grain boundary segregation of specific solute element additions. Increasing attention is paid to ternary and higher order systems, where complex interactions govern segregation. To efficiently study the large composition spaces of such systems, we apply a high-throughput combinatorial technique revealing nanocrystalline stability through composition-grain-size maps. We compare two systems with distinct interactions: In Pt–AuAg both binaries are expected to be stable, whereas in Pt–AuPd the Pt–Pd binary is unstable and Au-induced co-segregation of Pd was previously reported. For ternary Pt–AuAg we find excellent thermal stability throughout. The Pt–AuPd system, by contrast, divides into an unstable regime, where Pd solute dominates and precipitates, and a stable regime, where Au solute dominates and retains Pd in the grain boundary. Overall, by combining current theory and the introduced combinatorial approach, stable multicomponent nanocrystalline composition spaces can be rapidly determined. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
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