Mostafa Saber, Carl C. Koch, Ronald O. Scattergood. Thermodynamic Grain Size Stabilization Models: An Overview[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2015, 3(2): 65-75.
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Mostafa Saber, Carl C. Koch, Ronald O. Scattergood. Thermodynamic Grain Size Stabilization Models: An Overview[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2015, 3(2): 65-75.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2014.997894.
Thermodynamic Grain Size Stabilization Models: An Overview
Grain boundaries in a nanocrystalline microstructure produce an increase in the excess free energy of the system. Grain growth is a consequence of the thermodynamic driving force reducing this excess. Thermodynamic stabilization is an approach based on eliminating the driving force by suitable alloy additions that can produce a metastable equilibrium state at the nanoscale grain size
as opposed to kinetic stabilization where the grain growth mobility is restricted by pinning and/or drag mechanisms. The present paper reviews and compares various models proposed for thermodynamic stabilization.