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JOM
Volume 67, Issue 12, Pages 2788-2801Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-015-1644-9
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- U.S. Army Research Office [W911NF-12-1-0511]
- National Science Foundation Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit [CHE-082913]
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Nanocrystalline Cu-3 at.% Zr powders with 20 nm average grain size were created with mechanical alloying and their thermal stability was studied from 550-950A degrees C. Annealing drove Zr segregation to the grain boundaries, which led to the formation of amorphous intergranular complexions at higher temperatures. Grain growth was retarded significantly, with 1 week of annealing at 950A degrees C, or 98% of the solidus temperature, only leading to coarsening of the average grain size to 54 nm. The enhanced thermal stability can be connected to both a reduction in grain boundary energy with doping as well as the precipitation of ZrC particles. High mechanical strength is retained even after these aggressive heat treatments, showing that complexion engineering may be a viable path toward the fabrication of bulk nanostructured materials with excellent properties.
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