Ultrahigh elastically compressible and strain-engineerable intermetallic compounds under uniaxial mechanical loading

Song, Gyuho; Borisov, Vladislav; Meier, William R.; Xu, Mingyu; Dusoe, Keith J.; Sypek, John T.; Valentí, Roser; Canfield, Paul C.; Lee, Seok-Woo

doi:10.1063/1.5087279

Title: Ultrahigh elastically compressible and strain-engineerable intermetallic compounds under uniaxial mechanical loading

Journal Article · 18 June 2019 · APL Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5087279 · OSTI ID:1542866

^[1]; Borisov, Vladislav ^[2];

^[3]; Xu, Mingyu ^[3]; Dusoe, Keith J. ^[4]; Sypek, John T. ^[1]; Valentí, Roser ^[2];

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Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
Goethe Univ., Frankfurt (Germany)
Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, 97 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3136, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3136, USA

Intermetallic compounds possess unique atomic arrangements that often lead to exceptional material properties, but their extreme brittleness usually causes fracture at a limited strain of less than 1% and prevents their practical use. Thus, it is critical for them to exhibit either plasticity or some form of structural transition to absorb and release a sufficient amount of mechanical energy before failure occurs. This study observes that the ThCr₂Si₂-structured intermetallic compound (CaFe₂As₂) and a hybrid of its structure (CaKFe₄As₄) with 2 μm in diameter and 6 μm in height can exhibit superelasticity with strain up to 17% through a reversible, deformation-induced lattice collapse, leading to a modulus of resilience orders of magnitude higher than that of most engineering materials. Such superelasticity also can enable strain engineering, which refers to the modification of material properties through elastic strain. Density functional theory calculations and cryogenic nanomechanical tests predict that superconductivity in CaKFe₄As₄ could be turned on/off through the superelasticity process, before fracture occurs, even under uniaxial compression, which is the favorable switching loading mode in most engineering applications. Our results suggest that other members with the same crystal structure (more than 2500 intermetallic compounds) and substitution series based on them should be examined for the possibility of manifesting similar superelastic and strain-engineerable functional properties.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1542866

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1527048

Report Number(s):: IS-J--9979

Journal Information:: APL Materials, Journal Name: APL Materials Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 7; ISSN 2166-532X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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