The hidden structure dependence of the chemical life of dislocations
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Abstract
Dislocations are one-dimensional defects in crystals, enabling their deformation, mechanical response, and transport properties. Less well known is their influence on material chemistry. The severe lattice distortion at these defects drives solute segregation to them, resulting in strong, localized spatial variations in chemistry that determine microstructure and material behavior. Recent advances in atomic-scale characterization methods have made it possible to quantitatively resolve defect types and segregation chemistry. As shown here for a Pt-Au model alloy, we observe a wide range of defect-specific solute (Au) decoration patterns of much greater variety and complexity than expected from the Cottrell cloud picture. The solute decoration of the dislocations can be up to half an order of magnitude higher than expected from classical theory, and the differences are determined by their structure, mutual alignment, and distortion field. This opens up pathways to use dislocations for the compositional and structural nanoscale design of advanced materials.
Date Issued
2021-04-01
Date Acceptance
2021-03-01
Citation
Science Advances, 2021, 7 (16), pp.1-9
ISSN
2375-2548
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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1
End Page
9
Journal / Book Title
Science Advances
Volume
7
Issue
16
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subjects
ATOM-PROBE
CHEMISTRY
DEFECTS
LINEAR COMPLEXIONS
MICROSCOPY
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology
Science & Technology - Other Topics
SEGREGATION
STATES
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Published
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ARTN eabf0563
Date Publish Online
2021-04-16