Grain boundary doping strengthens nanocrystalline copper alloys

Sezer Özerinç; Kaiping Tai; Nhon Q. Vo; Pascal Bellon; Robert S. Averback; William P. King

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.06.031

Grain boundary doping strengthens nanocrystalline copper alloys

Sezer Özerinç, Kaiping Tai, Nhon Q. Vo, Pascal Bellon, Robert S. Averback, William P. King

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Abstract

Nanoindentation hardness measurements were performed on nanocrystalline (nc-) Cu alloys to test recent molecular dynamics predictions that (i) solute segregation to grain boundaries can lead to significant strengthening and (ii) solutes with large size mismatch with Cu are most effective. Results show that the hardness of nc-Cu ₉₀Nb ₁₀ is greater than 5 GPa, more than double that of pure nc-Cu, whereas similar additions of Fe solute have nearly no effect. These results are in good agreement with simulations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	720-723
Number of pages	4
Journal	Scripta Materialia
Volume	67
Issue number	7-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.06.031
State	Published - Oct 2012

Keywords

Grain boundary energy
Grain boundary strengthening
Nanocrystalline metal
Nanohardness
Nanoindentation

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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