Chemical heterogeneity modulated zero thermal expansion alloy over super-wide temperature range

Kun Lin; Wenbin Zhang; Chengyi Yu; Qiang Sun; Yili Cao; Wenjie Li; Suihe Jiang; Qiang Li; Qiang Zhang; Ke An; Yan Chen; Dunji Yu; Jue Liu; Kenichi Kato; Qinghua Zhang; Lin Gu; Xiaojun Kuang; Yu Tang; Jun Miao; Xianran Xing

doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101254

Chemical heterogeneity modulated zero thermal expansion alloy over super-wide temperature range

Kun Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Chengyi Yu, Qiang Sun, Yili Cao, Wenjie Li, Suihe Jiang, Qiang Li, Qiang Zhang, Ke An, Yan Chen, Dunji Yu, Jue Liu, Kenichi Kato, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Xiaojun Kuang, Yu Tang, Jun Miao, Xianran Xing

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Abstract

Chemical heterogeneity is usually avoided in solution chemistry, but it may still occur with sometimes dramatic effects on target materials and their properties. Here, we propose chemical heterogeneity as a counterintuitive strategy to design high-performance zero thermal expansion (ZTE) alloys. We apply this approach in a Hf-Ti-Fe alloy with excess Fe in the Hf/Ti sublattice and produce Hf/Ti concentration alternations at the micro level. Such chemical heterogeneity regulates local magnetic interactions in alloy and triggers a dispersed magnetic phase transition that modulates the thermal expansions at the micro level and hence results in a remarkable ZTE behavior over a super-wide temperature window from 10 to 480 K. This mechanism is supported by comprehensive studies on morphological microstructures, crystal and magnetic structures, and theoretical calculations. The strategy of local chemical heterogeneity opens up an avenue to design ZTE and the related functional materials directly via microstructure engineering.

Original language	English
Article number	101254
Journal	Cell Reports Physical Science
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101254
State	Published - Feb 15 2023

Funding

This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFA0406202), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22090042 and 21971009), the Guangxi BaGui Scholars Special Funding (2019M660446), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (FRF-IDRY-GD21-03). The synchrotron radiation diffraction experiments were performed at the BL44B2 of SPring-8 with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (proposal nos. 2021A1145 and 2019A1378). The neutron powder diffraction experiments were performed at the wombat of ANSTO, Australia (proposal no. P9189, P7341). A portion of this research used resources at the SNS, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the ORNL (proposal nos. 28239, 26722, and 24707). K.L. W.Z. and X.X. designed the study. K.L. W.Z. C.Y. Y.C. W.L. S.J. and Q.L. carried out the main experiments. K.L. K.A. X.K. J.M. and X.X. wrote the main draft of the paper. Q.S. did the theoretical calculations. Q.Z. K.A. Y.C. D.Y. and J.L. carried out ND and texture experiments. K.K. conducted synchrotron X-ray experiments. Q.Z. and L.G. conducted the TEM characterization. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests. This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China ( 2020YFA0406202 ), the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 22090042 and 21971009 ), the Guangxi BaGui Scholars Special Funding ( 2019M660446 ), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China ( FRF-IDRY-GD21-03 ). The synchrotron radiation diffraction experiments were performed at the BL44B2 of SPring-8 with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (proposal nos. 2021A1145 and 2019A1378 ). The neutron powder diffraction experiments were performed at the wombat of ANSTO , Australia (proposal no. P9189 , P7341 ). A portion of this research used resources at the SNS, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the ORNL (proposal nos. 28239 , 26722 , and 24707 ).

Funders	Funder number
Office of Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	24707, 28239, 26722
National Natural Science Foundation of China	22090042, 21971009
National Key Research and Development Program of China	2020YFA0406202
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities	FRF-IDRY-GD21-03
Bagui Scholars Program of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region	2019M660446

Keywords

Laves phase
alloy
chemical heterogeneity
functional materials
intermetallic compound
magnetic structure
microstructure
negative thermal expansion
zero thermal expansion

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Lin, K., Zhang, W., Yu, C., Sun, Q., Cao, Y., Li, W., Jiang, S., Li, Q., Zhang, Q., An, K., Chen, Y., Yu, D., Liu, J., Kato, K., Zhang, Q., Gu, L., Kuang, X., Tang, Y., Miao, J., & Xing, X. (2023). Chemical heterogeneity modulated zero thermal expansion alloy over super-wide temperature range. Cell Reports Physical Science, 4(2), Article 101254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101254

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