Thursday, February 21, 2013

1302.4836 (D. A. Aksyonov et al.)

Grain boundary segregation of C, N and O in hcp titanium from
first-principles
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D. A. Aksyonov, A. G. Lipnitskii, Yu. R. Kolobov
It is believed that grain boundary segregation of light interstitials can serve as possible mechanism of thermal stability in commercially pure nanostructured titanium alloys. In this paper, using first-principles calculations, we show that independent segregation of C, N and O atoms at \Sigma 7 high angle grain boundary in \alpha-Ti is energetically unfavourable. The presence of interstitial elements near and at the grain boundary interface results in the increase of the grain boundary width and specific formation energy.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4836

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