Nucleation Control of Structure During Rapid solidification Processing
백종승 , 강춘식 , C . R . Loper , Jr . , J . H . Perepezko
Abstract
A droplet emulsion technique which allows a deep undercooling (0.3-0.4Tm) at slow cooling rate (10-30℃/min) has been applied as a model approach to study the basic solidification mechanisms associated with rapid solidification processing. When a liquid metal is undercooled substantially, the crystal growth following nucleation will be rapid regardless of the cooling rate. Often, the usual solidification reactions can be suppressed at high undercooling by the formation of metastable solid solutions, intermediate phases and in some cases amorphous solids. The kinetic phase selection mechanism has been examined by a controlled nucleation catalysis experiment in which the primary solid solution is established as one type of suitable catalytic site for the generation of metastable phases during nucleation. Phase selection promoted by undercooling and known nucleation catalysis reactions provides numerous possibilities for nucleation controlled structure modification. This indicates that rapid solidification powder processing not only has a valuable potential for grain refinement, but also has extensive possibilities for microstructural modification.