Structural and dynamical properties of liquid Al-Au alloys
Structural and dynamical properties of liquid Al-Au alloys
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.92.184201
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发表时间:
2015-11
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
H. Peng;T. Voigtmann;G. Kolland;H. Kobatake;J. Brillo
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作者:
H. Peng;T. Voigtmann;G. Kolland;H. Kobatake;J. Brillo
We investigate temperature- and composition dependent structural and dynamical p roperties of Al-Au melts. Experiments are performed to obtain accurate density and viscosity data. The system shows a strong negative excess volume, similar to other Al-based binary alloys. We develop a molecular-dynamics (MD) model of the melt based on the embedded-atom method (EAM), gauged against the available experimental liquid-state data. A rescaling of previous EAM potentials for solid-state Au and Al improves the quantitative agreement with experimental data in the melt. In the MD simulation, the admixture of Au to Al can be interpreted as causing a local compression of the less dense Al system, driven by less soft Au--Au interactions. This local compression provides a microscopic mechanism explaining the strong negative excess volume of the melt. We further discuss the conentration dependence of self- and interdiffusion and viscosity in the MD model. Al atoms are more mobile than Au, and their increased mobility is linked to a lower viscosity of the melt.