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Quantitative Relationship Between the Nucleation Undercooling of Liquid Iron and Its Liquid Structure: Investigated by In Situ Synchrotron Radiation

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The nucleation behavior of liquid iron with various iron oxides was investigated through an in situ synchrotron radiation analysis and undercooling measurements. When Al and Si were added into the liquid in an oxygen atmosphere, three typical nucleation behaviors with three different undercooling values were observed during a thermocycling treatment. Further investigation showed that the nucleation undercooling (ΔT) increased linearly with variations in the nearest neighbor distance (r1) values of the liquid.

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This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0403802), the National Major Science and Technology Project of China (2017-VII-0008-0102), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91860121, 51727802, 51604173, 51821001). We also appreciate Prof. Ma Qian from RMIT for the useful discussion. Furthermore, we gratefully acknowledge the support of the synchrotron high-energy X-ray diffraction by the BL13W1 of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), China.

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    S. Cao, L. Zeng, M. Xia, X. Ge, W. Lu & J. Li

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, 213001, China

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  3. BCAST, Brunel University London, London, UBBCAST8 3PH, UK

    Y. Wang

  4. Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility/Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS, Shanghai, 201204, China

    Y. Fu & H. L. Xie

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Cao, S., Zeng, L., Xia, M. et al. Quantitative Relationship Between the Nucleation Undercooling of Liquid Iron and Its Liquid Structure: Investigated by In Situ Synchrotron Radiation. Metall Mater Trans A 51, 3754–3758 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05825-x

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