Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 103, Issue -, Pages 573-586Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.10.010
Keywords
Magnesium alloys; Bulk diffusion; First-principles calculation; Kinetics
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-1006557, ACI-1053575, OCI-0821527]
- Office of Science of US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Materials Simulation Center
- Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure unit at the Pennsylvania State University
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First-principles calculations based on density functional theory have been used to calculate the temperature-dependent dilute tracer diffusion coefficients for 47 substitutional alloying elements in hexagonal closed packed (hcp) Mg by combining transition state theory and an 8-frequency model. The minimum energy pathways and the saddle point configurations during solute migration are calculated with the climbing image nudged elastic band method. Vibrational properties are obtained using the quasi-harmonic Debye model with inputs from first-principles calculations. An improved generalized gradient approximation of PBEsol is used in the present first-principles calculations, which is able to well describe both vacancy formation energies and vibrational properties. It is found that the solute diffusion coefficients in hcp Mg are roughly inversely proportional to the bulk Modulus of the dilute alloys, which reflects the solutes' bonding to Mg. Transition metal elements with d electrons show strong interactions with Mg and have large diffusion activation energies. Correlation effects are not negligible for solutes Ca, Na, Sr, Se, Te, and Y, in which the direct solute migration barriers are much smaller than the solvent (Mg) migration barriers. Calculated diffusion coefficients are in remarkable agreement with available experimental data in the literature. (C) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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