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Double-Shelled L12 Nano-structures in Quaternary Al–Er–Sc–Zr Alloys: Origin and Critical Significance

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The formation of highly coherent double-shelled L12 nano-precipitates in dilute Al–Er–Sc–Zr alloys was investigated with the combined use of Cs-corrected transmission electron microscopy characterization and first-principles energetics calculations. The double-shelled nano-precipitates are primarily featured with an Er-rich core surrounded by a Sc-rich inner shell and a Zr-rich outer shell. First-principles energetics analyses based on the classic homogenous nucleation theory suggested that once forms, this double-shell structure can be thermally stable. The predominant formation of this double-shell structure has thus both profound kinetic and thermodynamic origins. Its formation and stability preference to all other possible L12 nano-structures would become more pronounced as its size increases, no matter what the solute ratio and aging temperature of interest.

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The authors would like to thank the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51971249) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2020KE012).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Henan Key Laboratory of Non-Ferrous Materials Science & Processing Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China

    Chao-Min Zhang & Ke-Xing Song

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

    Chao-Min Zhang & Yong Jiang

  3. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Pan Xie, Sheng Zhan, Wen-Quan Ming & Jiang-Hua Chen

  4. Jiangsu Haoran Spray Forming Alloy Co., Ltd, Zhenjiang, 212132, China

    Hao Zhang

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Zhang, CM., Xie, P., Jiang, Y. et al. Double-Shelled L12 Nano-structures in Quaternary Al–Er–Sc–Zr Alloys: Origin and Critical Significance. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 34, 1277–1284 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-021-01270-w

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