Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Paul, Tanaji; Singh, Ashish; Littrell, Kenneth C.; Ilavsky, Jan; Harimkar, Sandip P.

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3

Title: Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Journal Article · Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3· OSTI ID:1660451

Paul, Tanaji ^[1]; Singh, Ashish ^[2]; Littrell, Kenneth C. ^[3];

^[4]; Harimkar, Sandip P. ^[5]

Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States); Welspun Pipes, Inc., Little Rock, AR (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)

Understanding the thermal stability of metallic glasses is critical to determining their safe temperatures of service. In this paper, the crystallization mechanism in spark plasma sintered Fe₄₈Cr₁₅Mo₁₄Y₂C15B6 metallic glass is established by analyzing the crystal size distribution using x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and in-situ small angle neutron scattering. Isothermal annealing at 700 °C and 725 °C for 100 min resulted in the formation of (Fe,Cr)₂₃C₆ crystals, measured from transmission electron micrographs, to be from 10 to 30 nm. The small angle neutron scattering intensity measured in-situ, over a Q-range of 0.02 to 0.3 Å^-1, during isothermal annealing of the sintered samples, confirmed the presence of (Fe,Cr)₂₃C₆ crystals. The measured scattering intensity, fitted by the maximum entropy model, over the Q-range of 0.02 to 0.06 Å^-1, revealed that the crystals had radii ranging from 3 to 18 nm. The total volume fraction of crystals were estimated to be 0.13 and 0.22 upon isothermal annealing at 700 °C and 725 °C for 100 min respectively. The mechanism of crystallization in this spark plasma sintered iron based metallic glass was established to be from pre-existing nuclei as confirmed by Avrami exponents of 0.25 ± 0.01 and 0.39 ± 0.01 at the aforesaid temperatures.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; CMMI-1462602

OSTI ID:: 1660451

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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