Extreme abnormal grain growth: connecting mechanisms to microstructural outcomes

CE Krill III, EA Holm, JM Dake, R Cohn… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
If variety is the spice of life, then abnormal grain growth (AGG) may be the materials
processing equivalent of sriracha sauce. Abnormally growing grains can be prismatic …

Universal function for grain boundary energies in bcc metals

O Chirayutthanasak, R Sarochawikasit, S Khongpia… - Scripta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Constructing microstructure-property-processing relationships in polycrystalline metals
remains a challenge mainly due to the lack of quantitative relations between grain boundary …

Relative grain boundary energies from triple junction geometry: limitations to assuming the Herring condition in nanocrystalline thin films

MJ Patrick, GS Rohrer, O Chirayutthanasak… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Grain boundary character distributions (GBCD) are routinely measured from bulk
microcrystalline samples by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and serial sectioning …

Advances in Experimental Studies of Grain Growth in Thin Films

K Barmak, JM Rickman, MJ Patrick - JOM, 2024 - Springer
In this article, we review recent developments in the experimental study of grain growth in
nanocrystalline metallic thin films, emphasizing transmission electron microscopy-based …

The effect of interface stress on the grain boundary grooving in nanomaterials: Application to the thermal degradation of Cu/W nano-multilayers

AV Druzhinin, C Cancellieri, LPH Jeurgens… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of non-equilibrium grain boundaries and interphase boundaries is very
important for materials science. They can be found in materials after sever plastic …

Atomistic simulations of grain boundary energies in austenitic steel

S Ratanaphan, R Sarochawikasit… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Springer
The energies of 388 grain boundaries with a range of misorientations and grain boundary
plane orientations have been calculated using the meta-atom embedded atom method …

Anisotropic grain boundary area and energy distributions in tungsten

O Chirayutthanasak, R Sarochawikasit, A Wisitsorasak… - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Describing microstructure evolution in tungsten requires a quantitative description of the
anisotropic grain boundary energy. We present a grain boundary energy function for …

The structure and energy of symmetric tilt grain boundaries in tungsten

XR Zheng, XS Kong, X Li, X Li, Y Zhang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the limitations of experiments and the necessity for improving the radiation
resistance of materials based on the grain boundary (GB) engineering, more complete …

Microstructure deformation and near-pore environment of resolidified tungsten in high heat flux conditions

M Seo, K Wang, JR Echols, AL Winfrey - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Tungsten is a candidate divertor material for many tokamak reactors and has potential to be
durable to high heat flux conditions. However, plasma-materials interaction and edge …

Grain boundary character distribution in electroplated nanotwinned copper

S Ratanaphan, D Raabe, R Sarochawikasit… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - Springer
The grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) of nanotwinned copper, fabricated by
electroplating inside small-scale through-wafer vias, was characterized using a stereological …