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The Spectrum of Interstitial Solute Energies in Polycrystals

Materials Science 2023-07-03 v2

Abstract

A computational method is presented to measure the spectrum of segregation energies for an interstitial solute at grain boundaries (GBs) in a polycrystal. For the Pd-H system, that spectrum of GB interstitial segregation energies is found to consist of a mixture of two normal-like distributions, characteristic of GB octahedral and tetrahedral sites. We also derive a thermodynamic isotherm to calculate the equilibrium segregation state in a polycrystal that recognizes the need for referencing two interstitial site types, and show that it conforms well to experimental data in the Pd-H system.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07343,
  title  = {The Spectrum of Interstitial Solute Energies in Polycrystals},
  author = {Malik Wagih and Christopher A. Schuh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07343},
  year   = {2023}
}