Toward atomic-scale understanding of structure-dynamics-properties relations for metallic glasses

ZY Zhou, Q Yang, HB Yu - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Disorder and amorphous systems constitute a large body of modern scientific and
technological research, where metallic glasses represent a simple realistic model material …

A closer examination of the nature of atomic motion in the interfacial region of crystals upon approaching melting

J Zhang, H Zhang, JF Douglas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Although crystalline materials are often conceptualized as involving a static lattice
configuration of particles, it has recently become appreciated that string-like collective …

Decoupling atomic diffusion degeneracy in L12 intermetallics

H Luo, W Liu, C Liang - Materials Research Letters, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, a degenerate diffusion state is identified for common L12 intermetallics in well-
defined five-frequency model (FFM) and anti-site bridge model (ASB). The relative energy …

Electronically driven 1D cooperative diffusion in a simple cubic crystal

Y Wang, J Wang, A Hermann, C Liu, H Gao, E Tosatti… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Atomic diffusion is a spontaneous process and significantly influences properties of
materials, such as fracture toughness, creep-fatigue properties, thermal conductivity …

Crystallography, thermodynamics and phase transitions in refractory binary alloys

AR Natarajan, P Dolin, A Van der Ven - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate phase stability in all binary alloys comprised of elements from groups 4 (Ti,
Zr, Hf), 5 (V, Nb, Ta) and 6 (Cr, Mo, W) of the periodic table. First-principles calculations of …

Elinvar effect in β-Ti simulated by on-the-fly trained moment tensor potential

AV Shapeev, EV Podryabinkin, K Gubaev… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A combination of quantum mechanics calculations with machine learning techniques can
lead to a paradigm shift in our ability to predict materials properties from first principles. Here …

Dynamically stabilized phases with full ab initio accuracy: Thermodynamics of Ti, Zr, Hf with a focus on the hcp-bcc transition

JH Jung, A Forslund, P Srinivasan, B Grabowski - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Certain systems feature phases that are dynamically unstable at 0 K but are stabilized by
vibrations at higher temperatures. Treatment of these phases by conventional 0-K methods …

The interstitial diffusion behaviors and mechanisms of boron in α-Ti and β-Ti: A first-principles calculation

Y Duan, Y Wu, M Peng, H Qi - Computational Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
For a better explanation of the growth mechanism of boride layer on Ti substrate, the
interstitial diffusion behaviors and diffusion mechanisms of boron in α-Ti and β-Ti were …

Optimized interatomic potential for atomistic simulation of Zr-Nb alloy

S Starikov, D Smirnova - Computational Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a new classical interatomic potential for a study of the binary Zr-Nb system,
taking into account a wide range of the components concentrations. The potential was …

Atomistic description of self-diffusion in molybdenum: A comparative theoretical study of non-Arrhenius behavior

D Smirnova, S Starikov, GD Leines, Y Liang… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
According to experimental observations, the temperature dependence of self-diffusion
coefficient in most body-centered cubic metals (bcc) exhibits non-Arrhenius behavior. The …