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|a Higher Temperatures Yield Smaller Grains in a Thermally Stable Phase-Transforming Nanocrystalline Alloy
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|a Grains in crystalline materials usually grow with increased thermal exposure. Classical phenomena such as recrystallization may lead to a purely temporary decrease in the grain size, while recent advances in alloy design can yield thermally stable nanocrystalline materials in which grain growth stagnates. But grains never shrink, since there is a lack of interface-generating mechanisms at high temperatures, which are required to decrease the grain size if such was the system's thermodynamic tendency. Here we sidestep this paradigm by designing a nanocrystalline alloy having an allotropic phase transformation-an interface-generating mechanism-such that only the high-temperature phase is stabilized against grain growth. We demonstrate that for an Fe-Au alloy cycled through the α↔γ transformation, the high-temperature phase (γ-Fe) has a stable fine grain size, smaller than its low-temperature counterpart (α-Fe). The result is an unusual material in which an increase in temperature leads to finer grains that are stable in size.
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|a United States. Army Research Office (Grant W911NF-14-1-0539)
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|a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DMR1606914)
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|a European Commission. (Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship Grant 740384)
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