Reaction of amorphous/crystalline SiOC/Fe interfaces by thermal annealing

Su, Qing; Zhernenkov, Mikhail; Ding, Hepeng; Price, Lloyd; Haskel, Daniel; Watkins, Erik Benjamin; Majewski, Jaroslaw; Shao, Lin; Demkowicz, Michael J.; Nastasi, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.06.020

Title: Reaction of amorphous/crystalline SiOC/Fe interfaces by thermal annealing

Journal Article · 12 June 2017 · Acta Materialia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.06.020 · OSTI ID:1372391

^[1]; Zhernenkov, Mikhail ^[2]; Ding, Hepeng ^[3]; Price, Lloyd ^[3]; Haskel, Daniel ^[4]; Watkins, Erik Benjamin ^[5]; Majewski, Jaroslaw ^[6]; Shao, Lin ^[3]; Demkowicz, Michael J. ^[3];

^[1]

Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

The development of revolutionary new alloys and composites is crucial to meeting materials requirements for next generation nuclear reactors. The newly developed amorphous silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) and crystalline Fe composite system has shown radiation tolerance over a wide range of temperatures. To advance understanding of this new composite, we investigate the structure and thermal stability of the interface between amorphous SiOC and crystalline Fe by combining various experimental techniques and simulation methods. We show that the SiOC/Fe interface is thermally stable up to at least 400 °C. When the annealing temperature reaches 600 °C, an intermixed region forms at this interface. This region appears to be a crystalline phase that forms an incoherent interface with the Fe layer. Density functional theory (DFT) Molecular dynamics (MD) is performed on the homogeneous SiFeOC phase to study the early stages of 2 formation of the intermixed layer. Both experimental and simulation results suggest this phase has the fayalite crystal structure. As a result, the physical processes involved in the formation of the intermixed region are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source; USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; NE0000533; SC0012704; AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1372391

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1392212; OSTI ID: 1550350

Report Number(s):: BNL-114110-2017-JA; 136394

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Vol. 135, Issue C; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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