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Topology-generating interfacial pattern formation during liquid metal dealloying.


ABSTRACT: Liquid metal dealloying has emerged as a novel technique to produce topologically complex nanoporous and nanocomposite structures with ultra-high interfacial area and other unique properties relevant for diverse material applications. This process is empirically known to require the selective dissolution of one element of a multicomponent solid alloy into a liquid metal to obtain desirable structures. However, how structures form is not known. Here we demonstrate, using mesoscale phase-field modelling and experiments, that nano/microstructural pattern formation during dealloying results from the interplay of (i) interfacial spinodal decomposition, forming compositional domain structures enriched in the immiscible element, and (ii) diffusion-coupled growth of the enriched solid phase and the liquid phase into the alloy. We highlight how those two basic mechanisms interact to yield a rich variety of topologically disconnected and connected structures. Moreover, we deduce scaling laws governing microstructural length scales and dealloying kinetics.

SUBMITTER: Geslin PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4673498 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Topology-generating interfacial pattern formation during liquid metal dealloying.

Geslin Pierre-Antoine PA   McCue Ian I   Gaskey Bernard B   Erlebacher Jonah J   Karma Alain A  

Nature communications 20151119


Liquid metal dealloying has emerged as a novel technique to produce topologically complex nanoporous and nanocomposite structures with ultra-high interfacial area and other unique properties relevant for diverse material applications. This process is empirically known to require the selective dissolution of one element of a multicomponent solid alloy into a liquid metal to obtain desirable structures. However, how structures form is not known. Here we demonstrate, using mesoscale phase-field mod  ...[more]

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