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Grain boundary (GB) segregation is a powerful approach for optimizing the thermal and mechanical properties of metal alloys. In this study, we report significant GB interstitial segregation in a representative substitutional binary alloy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Zuoyong Zhang , Chuang Deng

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

We present a systematic methodology, built within the Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM) framework (https://openkim.org), for quantifying properties of grain boundaries (GBs) for arbitrary interatomic potentials (IPs), GB…

Recent advances in the numerical representation of materials opened the way for successful machine learning of grain boundary (GB) energies and the classification of GB mobility and shear coupling. Two representations were needed for these…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-17 Conrad W. Rosenbrock , Jonathan L. Priedeman , Gus L. W. Hart , Eric R. Homer

This study proposes algorithms for building tilt grain boundary (GB) models with a boundary plane-oriented approach that does not rely on existence of a coincidence site lattice (CSL). As conventional GB model generation uses the CSL of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-02 Yoyo Hinuma , Masanori Kohyama , Shingo Tanaka

As a bulk mechanical property, nanoscale hardness in polycrystalline metals is strongly dependent on microstructural features that are believed to be heavily influenced from complex features of polycrystallinity -- namely, individual grain…

Solute segregation in materials with grain boundaries (GBs) has emerged as a popular method to thermodynamically stabilize nanocrystalline structures. However, the impact of varied GB crystallographic character on solute segregation has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Lydia Harris Serafin , Ethan R. Cluff , Gus L. W. Hart , Eric R. Homer

While it is known that alloy components can segregate to grain boundaries (GBs), and that the atomic mobility in GBs greatly exceeds the atomic mobility in the lattice, little is known about the effect of GB segregation on GB diffusion.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-17 R. K. Koju , Y. Mishin

Grain boundaries in ultrafine grained (UFG) materials processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) are often called "non-equilibrium" grain boundaries. Such boundaries are characterized by excess grain boundary energy, presence of long…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-30 Xavier Sauvage , Gerhard Wilde , Sergiy Divinski , Zenji Horita , Ruslan Valiev

Grain boundaries (GBs) in metals usually increase electrical resistivity due to their distinct atomic arrangement compared to the grain interior. While the GB structure has a crucial influence on the electrical properties, its relationship…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 Hanna Bishara , Subin Lee , Tobias Brink , Matteo Ghidelli , Gerhard Dehm

We use atomistic simulations to investigate grain boundary (GB) phase transitions in el- emental body-centered cubic (bcc) metal tungsten. Motivated by recent modeling study of grain boundary phase transitions in [100] symmetric tilt…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-17 Timofey Frolov , Qiang Zhu , Tomas Oppelstrup , Jaime Marian , Robert E. Rudd

Grain growth (GG), driven by grain boundary (GB) migration, is a fundamental mechanism of microstructural evolution in polycrystalline materials. GB migration is frequently accompanied by a relative shear displacement of grains meeting at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Caihao Qiu , David J. Srolovitz , Gregory S. Rohrer , Jian Han , Marco Salvalaglio

Understanding the impact of lattice imperfections on nanoscale thermal transport is crucial for diverse applications ranging from thermal management to energy conversion. Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous defects in polycrystalline…

The microstructure is an essential part of materials, storing the genes of materials and having a decisive influence on materials' physical and chemical properties. The material genetic engineering program aims to establish the relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chao Shu , Zhuoran Xin , Cheng Xie

Grain boundaries (GBs) profoundly influence the properties and performance of materials, emphasizing the importance of understanding the GB structure and phase behavior. As recent computational studies have demonstrated the existence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Enze Chen , Tae Wook Heo , Brandon C. Wood , Mark Asta , Timofey Frolov

Data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Defects such as grain boundaries (GBs) are almost inevitable during the synthesis process of 2D materials. To take advantage of the fascinating properties of 2D materials, understanding the nature and impact of various GB structures on the…

Grain boundaries (GBs) are planar lattice defects that govern the properties of many types of polycrystalline materials. Hence, their structures have been investigated in great detail. However, much less is known about their chemical…

Grain Boundary (GB) deformation mechanisms such as Sliding (GBS) and Opening (GBO) are prevalent in alloys at high homologous temperatures but are hard to capture quantitatively. We propose an automated procedure to quantify 3D GB…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 C. J. A. Mornout , G. Slokker , T. Vermeij , D. König , J. P. M. Hoefnagels

A polycrystalline graphene consists of perfect domains tilted at angle {\alpha} to each other and separated by the grain boundaries (GB). These nearly one-dimensional regions consist in turn of elementary topological defects, 5-pentagons…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-16 Yuanyue Liu , Boris I. Yakobson