Ubiquitous short-range order in multi-principal element alloys

Han, Ying; Chen, Hangman; Sun, Yongwen; Liu, Jian; Wei, Shaolou; Xie, Bijun; Zhang, Zhiyu; Zhu, Yingxin; Li, Meng; Yang, Judith; Chen, Wen; Cao, Penghui; Yang, Yang

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49606-1

Title: Ubiquitous short-range order in multi-principal element alloys

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 UTC 2024 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49606-1 · OSTI ID:2433986

^[1]; Chen, Hangman ^[2]; Sun, Yongwen ^[1]; Liu, Jian ^[3]; Wei, Shaolou ^[4]; Xie, Bijun ^[2];

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Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Recent research in multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) has increasingly focused on the role of short-range order (SRO) on material performance. However, the mechanisms of SRO formation and its precise control remain elusive, limiting the progress of SRO engineering. Here, leveraging advanced additive manufacturing techniques that produce samples with a wide range of cooling rates (up to 10⁷ K s^–1) and an enhanced semi-quantitative electron microscopy method, we characterize SRO in three CoCrNi-based face-centered-cubic (FCC) MPEAs. Surprisingly, irrespective of the processing and thermal treatment history, all samples exhibit similar levels of SRO. Atomistic simulations reveal that during solidification, prevalent local chemical order arises in the liquid-solid interface (solidification front) even under the extreme cooling rate of 10¹¹ K s^–1. This phenomenon stems from the swift atomic diffusion in the supercooled liquid, which matches or even surpasses the rate of solidification. Therefore, SRO is an inherent characteristic of most FCC MPEAs, insensitive to variations in cooling rates and even annealing treatments typically available in experiments.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; SC0022295

OSTI ID:: 2433986

Report Number(s):: BNL--225978-2024-JAAM

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 15; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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