Effect of samarium doping on the nucleation of fcc-aluminum in undercooled liquids

Yang Sun; Feng Zhang; Lin Yang; Zhuo Ye; Huajing Song; Mikhail I. Mendelev; Cai Zhuang Wang; Kai Ming Ho

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.06.001

Effect of samarium doping on the nucleation of fcc-aluminum in undercooled liquids

Yang Sun^*
, Feng Zhang
, Lin Yang
, Zhuo Ye
, Huajing Song
, Mikhail I. Mendelev
, Cai Zhuang Wang
, Kai Ming Ho

^*Corresponding author for this work

United States Department of Energy
Iowa State University
University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

The effect of Sm doping on the fcc-Al nucleation was investigated in Al-Sm liquids with low Sm concentrations (x_Sm) with molecular dynamics simulations. The nucleation in the moderately undercooled liquid is achieved by the recently developed persistent-embryo method. Systematically computing the nucleation rate with different x_Sm (x_Sm = 0%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%) at 700 K, we found Sm dopant reduces the nucleation rate by up to 25 orders of magnitudes with only 5% doping concentration. This effect is mostly associated with the increase in the free energy barrier with minor contribution from suppression of the attachment to the nucleus caused by Sm doping.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	202-206
Number of pages	5
Journal	Scripta Materialia
Volume	154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.06.001
Publication status	Published - Sept 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Al-Sm
Crystal nucleation
Metallic liquid and glass
Molecular dynamics simulation
Phase transformation

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Effect of samarium doping on the nucleation of fcc-aluminum in undercooled liquids

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