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Unveiling the fine microstructure of nanoscale composite particles embedded in brittle Si phase in an Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloy

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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
卷 906, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.164238

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Aluminum alloys; Al(Cu) particle; Interface segregation; Three-dimensional tomography; Transmission electron microscopy

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11904093, 51831004, 51801060]

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The composition and fine structure of embedded nanoscale Al particles in Al-Si alloys with Cu addition are revealed through advanced transmission electron microscopy. These particles consist of a pure Al phase and an AlCu phase, which grows at the interface between Al and Si phases. It is suggested that the Al(Cu) composite particles are directly solidified from the melt during solidification.
Embedded nanoscale Al particles are promising for improving the toughness of large eutectic Si-phase particles in Al-Si-based alloys. However, the composition and fine structure of such Al particles in Al-Si alloys with Cu addition remain poorly known. Here, through advanced aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy and electron tomography, we reveal that the void-free particles are composed of a pure Al phase (face-centered cubic structure) and an AlCu phase with three types of crystallographic orientation relationships. The AlCu phase, which possesses a lattice constant of a = 0.300 nm and the space group of Pm3m, grows at the interface between Al and Si phases. Our study suggests that these Al(Cu) composite particles are directly solidified from the melt during solidification, rather than indirectly precipitated from a Si-Al-Cu solid solution. Heterogeneous nucleation of the AlCu phase on Si surface planes plays a critical role in forming these Al(Cu) particles embedded inside the large brittle Si particles.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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