[HTML][HTML] Grain boundary segregation in Ni-base alloys: A combined atom probe tomography and first principles study

AS Ebner, S Jakob, H Clemens, R Pippan… - Acta materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Grain boundary engineering (GBE) plays an important role in the design of new
polycrystalline materials with enhanced mechanical properties. This approach has been …

Entropy: A controversy between experiment and calculations in grain boundary segregation

P Lejček, M Šob - Progress in Materials Science, 2025 - Elsevier
Grain boundary segregation is one of the crucial phenomena affecting the properties of the
materials and their technological applications. However, 50 years since starting its intensive …

Impact of the segregation energy spectrum on the enthalpy and entropy of segregation

D Scheiber, L Romaner - Acta materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Substantial disagreement exists for segregation energies between experimentally measured
and first principles calculated values. To resolve this standing issue, we computed …

Grain boundary phase transformation in a CrCoNi complex concentrated alloy

F Cao, Y Chen, S Zhao, E Ma, L Dai - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The phase-transformation-like behavior of grain boundaries, where their chemistry, structure
and properties change discontinuously, is emerging as a fundamental interest in the context …

Aluminum depletion induced by co-segregation of carbon and boron in a bcc-iron grain boundary

A Ahmadian, D Scheiber, X Zhou, B Gault… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The local variation of grain boundary atomic structure and chemistry caused by segregation
of impurities influences the macroscopic properties of polycrystalline materials. Here, the …

Universal function for grain boundary energies in bcc metals

O Chirayutthanasak, R Sarochawikasit, S Khongpia… - Scripta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Constructing microstructure-property-processing relationships in polycrystalline metals
remains a challenge mainly due to the lack of quantitative relations between grain boundary …

Anharmonicity in grain boundary energy for Al: Thermodynamic integration with artificial-neural-network potential

M Matsuura, T Yokoi, Y Ogura, K Matsunaga - Scripta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Anharmonicity in grain boundary (GB) energies for Al is elucidated by employing a
thermodynamic integration method with a high-accuracy artificial-neural-network potential …

Entropy matters in grain boundary segregation

P Lejček, S Hofmann, M Všianská, M Šob - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Starting with a fairly comprehensive database on experimental results on enthalpy and
entropy of grain boundary segregation, the detrimental influence of ignoring the segregation …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical and experimental grain boundary energies in body-centered cubic metals

C Li, S Lu, S Divinski, L Vitos - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Grain boundary energy (GBE) and its temperature dependence in body-centered cubic (bcc)
metals are investigated using ab initio calculations. We reveal a scaling relationship …

Temperature dependence of solute segregation energies at W GBs from first principles

D Scheiber, MN Popov, L Romaner - Scripta materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Grain boundary segregation energies of solute elements play a decisive role for alloy
design. So far, the temperature dependence of these energies has been neglected in first …