2023/04/09 by Kamran Karimi, Karimi, Kamran, Stefanos Papanikolaou +1
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #High Entropy Alloys Studies #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.04255
openalex publication_date 2023/04/09 · openalex created_date 2023/04/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
Complex, concentrated, multi-component alloys have been shown to display outstanding thermo-mechanical properties, that have been typically attributed to sluggish diffusion, entropic, and lattice distortion effects. Here, we investigate two metal alloys with such exemplary properties, the equiatomic, single-phase, face-centered-cubic (FCC) alloys NiCoCr and NiCoCrFeMn, and we compare their microstructural kinetics to the behaviors in a pure-Ni FCC metal. We perform long-time, kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations, and we analyze in detail the kinetics of atomic vacancies. We find that vacancies in both concentrated alloys exhibit subdiffusive thermally driven dynamics, in direct contrast to the diffusive dynamics of pure Ni. Subdiffusive dynamics shall be attributed to dynamical sluggishness, that is modeled by a fractional Brownian random walk. Furthermore, we analyze the statistics of waiting times, and we interpret long power-law-distributed rest periods as a direct consequence of barriers' energy-scales and lattice distortions.