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

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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 aforesaidmore » temperatures.« less

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 [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5]
  1. Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States); Welspun Pipes, Inc., Little Rock, AR (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  5. Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1660451
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AC02-06CH11357; CMMI-1462602
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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42 ENGINEERING

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Paul, Tanaji, Singh, Ashish, Littrell, Kenneth C., Ilavsky, Jan, and Harimkar, Sandip P. Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3.
Paul, Tanaji, Singh, Ashish, Littrell, Kenneth C., Ilavsky, Jan, & Harimkar, Sandip P. Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3
Paul, Tanaji, Singh, Ashish, Littrell, Kenneth C., Ilavsky, Jan, and Harimkar, Sandip P. Thu . "Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1660451.
@article{osti_1660451,
title = {Crystallization Mechanism in Spark Plasma Sintered Bulk Metallic Glass Analyzed using Small Angle Neutron Scattering},
author = {Paul, Tanaji and Singh, Ashish and Littrell, Kenneth C. and Ilavsky, Jan and Harimkar, Sandip P.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-58748-3},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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