Atomic origins of water-vapour-promoted alloy oxidation

Luo, Langli; Su, Mao; Yan, Pengfei; Zou, Lianfeng; Schreiber, Daniel K.; Baer, Donald R.; Zhu, Zihua; Zhou, Guangwen; Wang, Yanting; Bruemmer, Stephen M.; Xu, Zhijie; Wang, Chongmin

doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0078-5

Atomic origins of water-vapour-promoted alloy oxidation

Journal Article · Mon May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0078-5· OSTI ID:1455285

; Su, Mao; Yan, Pengfei; Zou, Lianfeng; Schreiber, Daniel K.; Baer, Donald R.; Zhu, Zihua; ; ; Bruemmer, Stephen M.; Xu, Zhijie;

The presence of water vapor, intentional or unavoidable, is crucial to many materials applications, such as steam generator, turbine engine, fuel cell, catalyst, and corrosion 1-6. Phenomenologically, water vapor has been noticed to accelerate oxidation of metals/alloys 7,8, however, the atomistic mechanisms remain elusive. Herein, through direct in situ atomic-scale transmission electron microscopy observation and density functional theory calculation, we reveal that water vapor enhanced oxidation of Ni-Cr alloy is associated with proton dissolution promoted vacancy formation, migration and clustering. Protons derived from water dissociation occupy interstitial position in the oxide lattice, which consequently leads to the lowering of both vacancy formation energy and the cation diffusion barrier. The atomic scale observations reveal a water vapor derived proton mediated oxide growth mechanism, which provides insights for reckoning many technological processes concerning materials in moist environment at elevated temperatures.

Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US), Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1455285

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-124752; 49618; KP1704020

Journal Information:: Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 17; ISSN 1476-1122

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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