Real time study of grain enlargement in zirconium under room-temperature compression across the α to ω phase transition

Popov, Dmitry; Velisavljevic, Nenad; Liu, Wenjun; Hrubiak, Rostislav; Park, Changyong; Shen, Guoyin

doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51992-2

Title: Real time study of grain enlargement in zirconium under room-temperature compression across the α to ω phase transition

Journal Article · Thu Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51992-2· OSTI ID:1574137

Popov, Dmitry ^[1]; Velisavljevic, Nenad ^[2]; Liu, Wenjun ^[3];

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, X-ray Science Div.
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, X-ray Science Div.; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Shock and Detonation Physics Group; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Physics Div.-Physical & Life Sciences Directorate
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). X-ray Science Div.

We report a synchrotron Laue diffraction study on the microstructure evolution in zirconium (Zr) as it undergoes a pressure-driven structural phase transformation, using a recently developed real time scanning x-ray microscopy technique. Time resolved characterizations of microstructure under high pressure show that Zr exhibits a grain enlargement across the α-Zr to ω-Zr structural phase transition at room-temperature, with nucleation and growth of ω-Zr crystals observed from initially a nano-powdered α-Zr matrix. The observed grain enlargement is unusual since the enlargement processes typically require substantially high temperature to overcome the activation barriers for forming and moving of grain boundaries. Possible mechanisms for the grain enlargement are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1574137

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1835795

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-21-22821; 150626; TRN: US2100311

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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