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Effects of vacancy-solute clusters on diffusivity in metastable Fe-C alloys

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
dc.contributor Van Vliet, Krystyn J.
dc.contributor Van Vliet, Krystyn J.
dc.contributor Kabir, Mohammad Mukul
dc.contributor Lau, Timothy T.
dc.contributor Yip, Sidney
dc.creator Kabir, Mohammad Mukul
dc.creator Lau, Timothy T.
dc.creator Yip, Sidney
dc.creator Van Vliet, Krystyn J
dc.creator Lin, Xi, 1973-
dc.date 2011-02-04T15:58:32Z
dc.date 2011-02-04T15:58:32Z
dc.date 2010-10
dc.date 2010-08
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T08:01:56Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T08:01:56Z
dc.identifier 1098-0121
dc.identifier 1550-235X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60898
dc.identifier Kabir, Mukul et al. “Effects of vacancy-solute clusters on diffusivity in metastable Fe-C alloys.” Physical Review B 82.13 (2010): 134112. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5735-0560
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3230-280X
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-0137
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/275911
dc.description Diffusivity in defected crystals depends strongly on the interactions among vacancies and interstitials. Here we present atomistic analyses of point-defect cluster (PDC) concentrations and their kinetic barriers to diffusion in ferritic or body-centered-cubic (bcc) iron supersaturated with carbon. Among all possible point-defect species, only monovacancies, divacancies, and the PDC containing one vacancy and two carbon atoms are found to be statistically abundant. We find that the migration barriers of these vacancy-carbon PDCs are sufficiently high compared to that of monovacancies and divacancies. This leads to decreased self-diffusivity in bcc Fe with increasing carbon content for any given vacancy concentration, which becomes negligible when the local interstitial carbon concentration approaches twice that of free vacancies. These results contrast with trends observed in fcc Fe and provide a plausible explanation for the experimentally observed carbon dependence of volume diffusion-mediated creep in ferritic (bcc) Fe-C alloys. Moreover, this approach represents a general framework to predict self-diffusivity in alloys comprising a spectrum of point-defect clusters based on an energy-landscape survey of local energy minima (formation energies governing concentrations) and saddle points (activation barriers governing mobility).
dc.description National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
dc.description United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (PECASE program)
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher American Physical Society
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.134112
dc.relation Physical Review B
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dc.source APS
dc.title Effects of vacancy-solute clusters on diffusivity in metastable Fe-C alloys
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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