Interface dominated cooperative nanoprecipitation in interstitial alloys

The specifics of nanoscale precipitation in steels remain complex. Here the authors combine high-resolution microscopy and atomistic simulations to identify a cooperative growth mechanism leading to the preferential growth of cementite nanoprecipitates along a specific crystallographic direction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hongcai Wang, Xie Zhang, Dingshun Yan, Christoph Somsen, Gunther Eggeler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06474-w
Description
Summary:The specifics of nanoscale precipitation in steels remain complex. Here the authors combine high-resolution microscopy and atomistic simulations to identify a cooperative growth mechanism leading to the preferential growth of cementite nanoprecipitates along a specific crystallographic direction.
ISSN:2041-1723