Harnessing Abnormal Grain Growth for the Production of Single Crystals

利用异常晶粒生长来生产单晶

基本信息

项目摘要

Non-technical summary:Most engineering materials are commonly found in polycrystalline form, in which a solid consists of many tiny crystals with different orientations. In some cases, superior properties can be achieved when the material is made in a single crystal form, as in the case for jet-engine turbine blades and solar cells. However, single crystals are expensive and time-consuming to produce. Recently researchers have developed a method for the production of single crystals by exploiting abnormal grain growth induced by cyclic heat treatment, in which a metal alloy is heated and cooled repeatedly. During abnormal grain growth, a few grains preferentially grow by engulfing the neighboring grains. The goal of this project is to discover why and how this process occurs. The project integrates emergent research in structural characterization and simulations of grain growth, capitalizing on our ability to watch the evolution of the grain network in real-time, and leveraging high performance computing resources to simulate microstructural evolution. Developing this fundamental understanding of abnormal grain growth could lead to a paradigm shift in the manufacture of single-crystalline materials, and therefore it promotes global competitiveness in manufacturing and technology and national prosperity. The project also promotes the development of a highly trained future workforce; two graduate students are trained in state-of-the-art techniques in experiments, modeling, simulations, and data analysis. Outreach activities are carried out through the Females Excelling More in the Math, Engineering, and the Sciences program and Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad and include a virtual reality demonstration that allows students to walk through an evolving microstructure during heat treatment. Technical summary:A cyclic heat treatment that induces abnormal grain growth holds promise for solid-state processing of single crystals and otherwise large-grained materials. However, its full potential has not been realized due to the poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying the process. The objective of this project is to advance the science governing the growth of the abnormal grains during cyclic thermal treatment. The following fundamental questions are addressed: What is the mechanism by which abnormal grain growth is initiated during a cyclic heat treatment? Which grains are most likely to become abnormal and what are their microstructural signatures? How does the abnormal grain grow into new microstructural neighborhoods? To answer these questions, emergent research in structural characterization, phase-field and phase-field-crystal modeling, and graph theory methods are synergistically integrated. High-resolution synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction microscopy is utilized to visualize and quantify the evolution of the grain and subgrain network in real-time and also enable microstructural evolution simulations based on the measured space-, time-, and orientation-resolved datasets as initial conditions. The resulting high-dimensional data is then distilled into a network model that succinctly describes the microstructure and the local driving forces for grain boundary motion. Scientific understanding of abnormal grain growth upon thermal cycling will ultimately inform the process design of single-crystal fabrication.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
非技术总结:大多数工程材料通常以多晶形式存在,其中固体由许多具有不同取向的微小晶体组成。 在某些情况下,当材料以单晶形式制成时,可以实现上级性能,如喷气发动机涡轮机叶片和太阳能电池的情况。 然而,单晶体的生产昂贵且耗时。 最近,研究人员开发了一种通过利用由循环热处理引起的异常晶粒生长来生产单晶的方法,其中金属合金被反复加热和冷却。 在异常晶粒生长期间,少数晶粒通过吞噬相邻晶粒而优先生长。 这个项目的目标是发现为什么以及如何发生这个过程。该项目整合了结构表征和晶粒生长模拟方面的紧急研究,利用我们实时观察晶粒网络演变的能力,并利用高性能计算资源来模拟微观结构演变。 发展这种对异常晶粒生长的基本理解可能会导致单晶材料制造的范式转变,从而促进制造业和技术的全球竞争力以及国家繁荣。 该项目还促进了训练有素的未来劳动力的发展;两名研究生在实验,建模,模拟和数据分析方面接受了最先进的技术培训。 外展活动通过女性在数学,工程和科学计划中表现更出色进行,并包括虚拟现实演示,让学生在热处理过程中通过不断发展的微观结构。 技术总结:诱导异常晶粒生长的循环热处理有望用于单晶和其他大晶粒材料的固态加工。 然而,由于对这一进程的基本机制缺乏了解,其潜力尚未得到充分发挥。 本计画的目的是为了增进循环热处理过程中异常晶粒成长的科学。 以下基本问题得到解决:什么是机制,异常晶粒生长是在循环热处理过程中发起的? 哪些晶粒最有可能变得异常,它们的微观结构特征是什么? 异常颗粒如何生长成新的微观结构社区? 为了回答这些问题,在结构表征,相场和相场晶体建模和图论方法的新兴研究协同集成。 基于高分辨率同步加速器的X射线衍射显微镜用于实时可视化和量化晶粒和亚晶粒网络的演变,并基于测量的空间,时间和方向分辨数据集作为初始条件进行微观结构演变模拟。 所得的高维数据,然后提炼成一个网络模型,简洁地描述了微观结构和晶界运动的局部驱动力。 对热循环过程中异常晶粒生长的科学理解将最终为单晶制造的工艺设计提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估,被认为值得支持。

项目成果

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Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing
非等温退火过程中异常应变能驱动的晶粒宏观尺度平移
  • DOI:
    10.13011/m3-tnfb-4654
  • 发表时间:
    2022
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Kang, Jiwoong
  • 通讯作者:
    Kang, Jiwoong
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Katsuyo Thornton其他文献

Teaching Computational Methods for Materials Discovery and Design
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s11837-023-05923-2
  • 发表时间:
    2023-06-02
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.300
  • 作者:
    Timothy Chambers;Katsuyo Thornton;Wenhao Sun
  • 通讯作者:
    Wenhao Sun
The origin of the superior fast-charging performance of hybrid graphite/hard carbon anodes for Li-ion batteries
锂离子电池混合石墨/硬碳负极卓越快充性能的起源
  • DOI:
    10.1016/j.ensm.2025.104053
  • 发表时间:
    2025-03-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    20.200
  • 作者:
    Vishwas Goel;Kevin Masel;Kuan-Hung Chen;Ammar Safdari;Neil P. Dasgupta;Katsuyo Thornton
  • 通讯作者:
    Katsuyo Thornton
New frontiers for the materials genome initiative
材料基因组计划的新前沿
  • DOI:
    10.1038/s41524-019-0173-4
  • 发表时间:
    2019-04-05
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    11.900
  • 作者:
    Juan J. de Pablo;Nicholas E. Jackson;Michael A. Webb;Long-Qing Chen;Joel E. Moore;Dane Morgan;Ryan Jacobs;Tresa Pollock;Darrell G. Schlom;Eric S. Toberer;James Analytis;Ismaila Dabo;Dean M. DeLongchamp;Gregory A. Fiete;Gregory M. Grason;Geoffroy Hautier;Yifei Mo;Krishna Rajan;Evan J. Reed;Efrain Rodriguez;Vladan Stevanovic;Jin Suntivich;Katsuyo Thornton;Ji-Cheng Zhao
  • 通讯作者:
    Ji-Cheng Zhao
Phase-Field Modeling and Simulations of Lipid Membranes Coupling Composition with Membrane Mechanical Properties
  • DOI:
    10.1016/j.bpj.2009.12.1536
  • 发表时间:
    2010-01-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
  • 作者:
    Chloe M. Funkhouser;Francisco J. Solis;Katsuyo Thornton
  • 通讯作者:
    Katsuyo Thornton
Enhancing polycrystalline-microstructure reconstruction from X-ray diffraction microscopy with phase-field post-processing
  • DOI:
    10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116228
  • 发表时间:
    2024-11-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
  • 作者:
    Marcel Chlupsa;Zachary Croft;Katsuyo Thornton;Ashwin J. Shahani
  • 通讯作者:
    Ashwin J. Shahani

Katsuyo Thornton的其他文献

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{{ truncateString('Katsuyo Thornton', 18)}}的其他基金

Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education
综合计算材料教育暑期学校
  • 批准号:
    2213806
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Elements: Data Driven Autonomous Thermodynamic and Kinetic Model Builder for Microstructural Simulations
元素:用于微观结构模拟的数据驱动自主热力学和动力学模型构建器
  • 批准号:
    2209423
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Probing the Evolution of Granular Microstructures during Dynamic Annealing via Integrated Three-Dimensional Experiments and Simulations
通过集成三维实验和模拟探讨动态退火过程中颗粒微观结构的演变
  • 批准号:
    2104786
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
GOALI: Collaborative Research: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Microstructural and Electrochemical Stability of Solid Oxide Cells
GOALI:协作研究:固体氧化物电池微观结构和电化学稳定性的实验和理论研究
  • 批准号:
    1912151
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: Integrated Computational and Experimental Studies of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrode Structural Evolution and Electrochemical Characteristics
合作研究:固体氧化物燃料电池电极结构演化和电化学特性的综合计算和实验研究
  • 批准号:
    1506055
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
FRG: Predictive Computational Modeling of Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene: Defects and Morphologies
FRG:石墨烯以外的二维材料的预测计算模型:缺陷和形态
  • 批准号:
    1507033
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education
合作研究:综合计算材料教育暑期学校
  • 批准号:
    1410461
  • 财政年份:
    2014
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
FRG: Development and Validation of Novel Computational Tools for Modeling the Growth and Self-Assembly of Crystalline Nanostructures
FRG:用于模拟晶体纳米结构的生长和自组装的新型计算工具的开发和验证
  • 批准号:
    1105409
  • 财政年份:
    2011
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education
综合计算材料教育暑期学校
  • 批准号:
    1058314
  • 财政年份:
    2010
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Microstructural and Chemical Mapping of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes: Processing, Structure, Stability, and Electrochemistry
合作研究:固体氧化物燃料电池电极的三维微观结构和化学测绘:加工、结构、稳定性和电化学
  • 批准号:
    0907030
  • 财政年份:
    2009
  • 资助金额:
    $ 17.6万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant

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