Sutrakar, Vijay Kumar and Mahapatra, Roy D (2011) Size and temperature dependent stability and phase transformation in single-crystal zirconium nanowire. In: Polymer Engineering & Science, 13 (10). pp. 5335-5346.
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A novel size dependent FCC (face-centered-cubic) -> HCP (hexagonally-closed-pack) phase transformation and stability of an initial FCC zirconium nanowire are studied. FCC zirconium nanowires with cross-sectional dimensions < 20 are found unstable in nature, and they undergo a FCC -> HCP phase transformation, which is driven by tensile surface stress induced high internal compressive stresses. FCC nanowire with cross-sectional dimensions > 20 , in which surface stresses are not enough to drive the phase transformation, show meta-stability. In such a case, an external kinetic energy in the form of thermal heating is required to overcome the energy barrier and achieve FCC -> HCP phase transformation. The FCC-HCP transition pathway is also studied using Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) method, to further confirm the size dependent stability/metastability of Zr nanowires. We also show size dependent critical temperature, which is required for complete phase transformation of a metastable-FCC nanowire.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Polymer Engineering & Science |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Springer. |
| Keywords: | Molecular dynamics;Phase transformations;Nanowire;Zirconium; Nanostructured materials;Stability;Modeling and simulation |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Chemical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2011 09:22 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2011 09:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42083 |
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