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- Title
High-Temperature Stability and Grain Boundary Complexion Formation in a Nanocrystalline Cu-Zr Alloy.
- Authors
Khalajhedayati, Amirhossein; Rupert, Timothy
- Abstract
Nanocrystalline Cu-3 at.% Zr powders with ~20 nm average grain size were created with mechanical alloying and their thermal stability was studied from 550-950°C. Annealing drove Zr segregation to the grain boundaries, which led to the formation of amorphous intergranular complexions at higher temperatures. Grain growth was retarded significantly, with 1 week of annealing at 950°C, or 98% of the solidus temperature, only leading to coarsening of the average grain size to 54 nm. The enhanced thermal stability can be connected to both a reduction in grain boundary energy with doping as well as the precipitation of ZrC particles. High mechanical strength is retained even after these aggressive heat treatments, showing that complexion engineering may be a viable path toward the fabrication of bulk nanostructured materials with excellent properties.
- Subjects
THERMAL stability; CRYSTAL grain boundaries; CRYSTAL structure; MECHANICAL alloying; NANOSTRUCTURED materials
- Publication
JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2015, Vol 67, Issue 12, p2788
- ISSN
1047-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11837-015-1644-9