Real time study of grain enlargement in zirconium under room-temperature compression across the α to ω phase transition.

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High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA.

Published: October 2019

We report a synchrotron Laue diffraction study on the microstructure evolution in zirconium (Zr) as it undergoes a pressure-driven structural phase transformation, using a recently developed real time scanning x-ray microscopy technique. Time resolved characterizations of microstructure under high pressure show that Zr exhibits a grain enlargement across the α-Zr to ω-Zr structural phase transition at room-temperature, with nucleation and growth of ω-Zr crystals observed from initially a nano-crystalline aggregate of α-Zr. The observed grain enlargement is unusual since the enlargement processes typically require substantially high temperature to overcome the activation barriers for forming and moving of grain boundaries. Possible mechanisms for the grain enlargement are discussed.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823495PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51992-2DOI Listing

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