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| author | Zhang, Yongxin Zhang, Weihan Zhao, Luneng Zhao, Zixiang Lu, Siqi Liu, Yangrui Song, Dongsheng Wei, Changzheng Pang, Zhentao Ren, Yifeng Gao, Junfeng Gao, Weiwei Wu, Di Zhao, Jijun Hu, Kuo-Juei Ji, Wei Deng, Yu Ge, Binghui Song, Fengqi |
| author_facet | Zhang, Yongxin Zhang, Weihan Zhao, Luneng Zhao, Zixiang Lu, Siqi Liu, Yangrui Song, Dongsheng Wei, Changzheng Pang, Zhentao Ren, Yifeng Gao, Junfeng Gao, Weiwei Wu, Di Zhao, Jijun Hu, Kuo-Juei Ji, Wei Deng, Yu Ge, Binghui Song, Fengqi |
| contents | According to classical Miedema theory, reducing crystals to the order of nanometer sizes might greatly modulate the mixing enthalpy of elements, thus enabling the invention of a lot of new bulk-immiscible alloys. Although numerous alloys with higher mixing enthalpies remain unexplored, this strategy is approaching its limit, as reflected by the critical diameter of recent alloys of 1.8 nm, which corresponds to ~150 atoms and hardly provides a crystalline order. Future development requires not only even smaller atomic-scale control but also a new surface energy-saving mechanism. Here, we report the formation of W-Cu nanoalloys with a very large miscibility gap in the bulk via the use of an atomically size-selected cluster beam source as an example. The face-centered cubic (FCC) structure was demonstrated through electron diffraction, which indicated a lattice constant of 3.88Å for W0.85Cu0.15 nanoalloys (~2280 atoms). In this comprehensive study that covers a large parameter space of W/Cu compositions and numbers of atoms, an asymmetric miscibility nanophase diagram in which W-rich compositions favor mixing and the critical size is approximately 6000 atoms, which far exceeds the approximately tens of atoms predicted via classical theory, was obtained for the first time. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed a mutual strain-induced mechanism that simultaneously lowers the surface energies while reducing the size to the atomic scale. This approach paves the way for the development of new high-performance nonequilibrium phase alloys. |
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| spellingShingle | Understanding the atomically precise evolution of the miscibility of newly prepared face-centered cubic W-Cu nanoalloys and its asymmetry Zhang, Yongxin Zhang, Weihan Zhao, Luneng Zhao, Zixiang Lu, Siqi Liu, Yangrui Song, Dongsheng Wei, Changzheng Pang, Zhentao Ren, Yifeng Gao, Junfeng Gao, Weiwei Wu, Di Zhao, Jijun Hu, Kuo-Juei Ji, Wei Deng, Yu Ge, Binghui Song, Fengqi Materials Science According to classical Miedema theory, reducing crystals to the order of nanometer sizes might greatly modulate the mixing enthalpy of elements, thus enabling the invention of a lot of new bulk-immiscible alloys. Although numerous alloys with higher mixing enthalpies remain unexplored, this strategy is approaching its limit, as reflected by the critical diameter of recent alloys of 1.8 nm, which corresponds to ~150 atoms and hardly provides a crystalline order. Future development requires not only even smaller atomic-scale control but also a new surface energy-saving mechanism. Here, we report the formation of W-Cu nanoalloys with a very large miscibility gap in the bulk via the use of an atomically size-selected cluster beam source as an example. The face-centered cubic (FCC) structure was demonstrated through electron diffraction, which indicated a lattice constant of 3.88Å for W0.85Cu0.15 nanoalloys (~2280 atoms). In this comprehensive study that covers a large parameter space of W/Cu compositions and numbers of atoms, an asymmetric miscibility nanophase diagram in which W-rich compositions favor mixing and the critical size is approximately 6000 atoms, which far exceeds the approximately tens of atoms predicted via classical theory, was obtained for the first time. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed a mutual strain-induced mechanism that simultaneously lowers the surface energies while reducing the size to the atomic scale. This approach paves the way for the development of new high-performance nonequilibrium phase alloys. |
| title | Understanding the atomically precise evolution of the miscibility of newly prepared face-centered cubic W-Cu nanoalloys and its asymmetry |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21317 |