A phase field crystal model for real-time grain boundary formation and motion in complex concentration alloy

J Li, X Yi, B Liu, Q Fang, PK Liaw - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The complex concentration alloys exhibit the excellent mechanical property due to the dual
roles of their heterogeneous compositions and microstructures. However, the formation and …

Heat transport across graphene/hexagonal-BN tilted grain boundaries from phase-field crystal model and molecular dynamics simulations

H Dong, P Hirvonen, Z Fan, P Qian, Y Su… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study the interfacial thermal conductance of grain boundaries (GBs) between monolayer
graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheets using a combined atomistic approach …

Control of phase ordering and elastic properties in phase field crystals through three-point direct correlation

ZL Wang, Z Liu, W Duan, ZF Huang - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Effects of three-point direct correlation on properties of the phase field crystal (PFC)
modeling are examined for the control of various ordered and disordered phases and their …

Grain rotation and coupled grain boundary motion in two-dimensional binary hexagonal materials

B Waters, ZF Huang - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamical mechanisms underlying the grain evolution and growth are of fundamental
importance in controlling the structural properties of large-scale polycrystalline materials, but …

Minimal phase-field crystal modeling of vapor-liquid-solid coexistence and transitions

ZL Wang, Z Liu, ZF Huang, W Duan - Physical Review Materials, 2020 - APS
A phase-field crystal model based on the density-field approach incorporating high-order
interparticle direct correlations is developed to study vapor-liquid-solid coexistence and …

Mesoscale field theory for quasicrystals

M De Donno, L Angheluta, KR Elder… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We present a mesoscale field theory unifying the modeling of growth, elasticity, and
dislocations in quasicrystals. The theory is based on the amplitudes entering their density …

Importance of kink energy in calculating the formation energy of a graphene edge

W Lee, D Hedman, J Dong, L Zhang, Z Lee, SY Kim… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The formation energy of an arbitrary graphene edge or that of other 2D materials has been
estimated as a summation of the armchair (AC) and zigzag (ZZ) edge sites. Such an …

Influence of dislocations in multilayer graphene stacks: A phase field crystal study

KR Elder, ZF Huang, T Ala-Nissila - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
In this study, the influence of 5| 7 dislocations in multilayer graphene stacks (up to six layers)
is examined. The study is conducted using a recently developed phase-field crystal (PFC) …

Moiré patterns and inversion boundaries in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride bilayers

KR Elder, ZF Huang, T Ala-Nissila - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
In this paper a systematic examination of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (g/hBN) bilayers
is presented, through a recently developed two-dimensional phase field crystal model that …

Noise-Induced Defects in Honeycomb Lattice Structure: A Phase-Field Crystal Study

V Ankudinov, PK Galenko - Crystals, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the classes of the kinetic phase-field model in the form of the two-mode hyperbolic
phase-field crystal model (modified PFC model) is used for the study of the noise effect of the …