Crystallization of Metallic Glass Forming Nanorods

Speaker: 
Sung Woo Sohn
Seminar Date: 
Friday, January 26, 2018 - 7:00am
Location: 
BECTON SEMINAR ROOM See map
Prospect Street
New Haven, CT

Metallic glasses (MGs) provide ideal material platforms to study crystallization due to their simple metallic bonds and sluggish crystallization kinetics. But even for MGs, a direct observation of the crystallization process has been challenging, partly due to limitations in fabricating samples appropriate for characterization methods. We have recently demonstrated the fabrication of metallic glass nanorods via thermoplastic forming, enabling us to directly observe crystallization using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Here, we investigate crystallization of MG forming liquids by in-situ heating size-controlled MG nanorods down to ~5 nm inside a TEM. We show that the MG nanorod diameter affects the crystallization kinetics strongly. With decreasing nanorod diameters, crystallization temperature decreases initially, exhibits a minimum at ~ 30 nm, and then rapidly increases with decreasing size. In addition, we show unexpected crystallization phenomena at the nanoscale, which significantly deviate from the classical-framework. By controlling the sample size and the crystallization kinetics of MG nanorods, we can tune the nuclei population and tailor the resulting crystallization phases from the expected to a new phase. In this talk, I will discuss this unusual crystallization kinetics. Factors are experimentally verified by slowed grain growth and scatter in crystallization temperature with decreasing diameters.

Host: 
Corey O'Hern
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