The nanocrystalline-amorphous textures are commonly observed in the coatings synthesized by energetic deposition.This work reports a theoretical study towards binary Cu-C phase separation.By performing a MD simulation using the LAMMPS instead of classical PFK methodology, we theoretically explained how the initial pressure and Cu concentration fundamentally determines Cu nanocrystalline's final morphology and grain size,which gives a novel insight into binary phase separation and the evolution mechanism of nanocrystalline-amorphous structures during energetic deposition.
@article{arxiv.2211.14867,
title = {Understanding binary phase separation towards Cu-C nanocrystalline-amorphous composites},
author = {Jiajian Guan and Qin Jiang and Yue He and Xu Zhang and Bin Liao and Wei Gao and Lizhao Qin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14867},
year = {2023}
}