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Formation and Relative Stabilities of Core-Shelled L12-Phase Nano-structures in Dilute Al–Sc–Er Alloys

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First-principles thermodynamic calculations were carried out at the interface level for understanding the precipitation of coherent L12-phase nano-structures in dilute Al–Sc–Er alloys. All energetics, relevant to bulk substitution, interface formation, interfacial coherent strain and segregation, were calculated and used to evaluate the nucleation and relative stabilities of various possible L12 nano-structures. Only matrix-dissolved solute Er (or Sc) can substitute Sc (or Er) in L12-Al3Sc (or Al3Er). The inter-substitution between L12-Al3Sc and Al3Er is not energy feasible. Ternary L12-Al3(ErxSc1−x) precipitates tend to form the Al3Er-core and Al3Sc-shell structure with a sharp core/shell interface. Three possible formation mechanisms were proposed and examined. The effects of Er/Sc ratio and aging temperature on the relative stabilities of L12-phase nano-structures in Al were also discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51971249), the National MCF Energy R&D Program of China (Project No. 2018YFE0306100) and the Key Research and Development Projects of Shandong Province (No. 2017GGX20130).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, People’s Republic of China

    Chaomin Zhang, Xiuhua Guo & Kexing Song

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Chaomin Zhang & Yong Jiang

  3. Henan Province Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Material Science and Processing Technology, Luoyang, 471023, People’s Republic of China

    Xiuhua Guo & Kexing Song

  4. Collaborative Innovation Center of Nonferrous Metals, Luoyang, 471023, Henan Province, China

    Xiuhua Guo

  5. Provincial and Ministerial Co-construction of Collaborative Innovation Center for Non-ferrous Metal New Materials and Advanced Processing Technology, Luoyang, 471023, Henan Province, People’s Republic of China

    Kexing Song

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Zhang, C., Jiang, Y., Guo, X. et al. Formation and Relative Stabilities of Core-Shelled L12-Phase Nano-structures in Dilute Al–Sc–Er Alloys. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 33, 1627–1634 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-020-01096-y

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