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 …

Efficient descriptors and active learning for grain boundary segregation

C Dösinger, M Hodapp, O Peil, A Reichmann… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Segregation of solutes to grain boundaries (GBs) is an important process having a large
impact on mechanical properties of metallic alloys. In this work, we show how accurate …

Grain boundary segregation prediction with a dual-solute model

Z Zhang, C Deng - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
Solute segregation along grain boundaries (GBs) profoundly affects their thermodynamic
and kinetic behaviors in polycrystalline materials. Recently, the spectral approach has …

[HTML][HTML] Grain boundary segregation for the Fe-P system: Insights from atomistic modeling and Bayesian inference

A Reichmann, N Tuchinda, C Dösinger, D Scheiber… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work we re-assess experimental data for grain boundary (GB) segregation of P in bcc
Fe with thermodynamic and statistical methods. The data are based on Auger-Electron …

Grain boundary solute segregation across the 5D space of crystallographic character

LH Serafin, ER Cluff, GLW Hart, ER Homer - Acta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Solute segregation in materials with grain boundaries (GBs) has emerged as a popular
method to thermodynamically stabilize nanocrystalline structures. However, the impact of …

High‐Throughput First‐Principles Calculations and Machine Learning of Grain Boundary Segregation in Metals

D Scheiber, V Razumovskiy, O Peil… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The segregation of solute elements to defects in metals plays a fundamental role for
microstructure evolution and the material performance. However, the available …

[HTML][HTML] Descriptors based on the density of states for efficient machine learning of grain-boundary segregation energies

C Dösinger, T Hammerschmidt, O Peil… - Computational Materials …, 2025 - Elsevier
The segregation of alloying elements to grain-boundaries (GB) has a significant impact on
mechanical and functional properties of materials. The process is controlled by the …

Computed entropy spectra for grain boundary segregation in polycrystals

N Tuchinda, CA Schuh - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Grain boundary solute segregation influences most bulk material properties, and
understanding solute thermodynamics at grain boundaries is critical for engineering them …

Ab initio informed solute drag assessment for ferritic steels

D Scheiber - Computational Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Linking atomistic information on solute interactions with microstructure evolution is a key
challenge for predictive modelling of chemistry effects on material properties. The objective …

Effective first-principle description of thermodynamics for BCC Nb-V system by involving the contributions of chemical order, lattice distortion and vibration

Z Wang, Z Dong, L Zhang, Q Luo, B Liu, Z Wu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The thermodynamic properties of body-centered cubic Nb-V system are well described
using the integrated methodology of first-principle calculations, cluster expansion and Monte …