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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2024

Spontaneous Liquefaction of Solid Metal-Liquid Metal Interfaces in Colloidal Binary Alloys.

Caiden J Parker, Karma Zuraiqi, Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Edwin Lh Mayes, Pierre H A Vaillant, Syeda Saba Fatima, Karolina Matuszek, Jianbo Tang, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Nastaran Meftahi and 6 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Spontaneous Liquefaction of Solid Metal-Liquid Metal Interfaces in Colloidal Binary Alloys.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Caiden J ParkerSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4358-8097
Karma ZuraiqiSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Vaishnavi KrishnamurthiSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Edwin Lh MayesSchool of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Pierre H A VaillantSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Syeda Saba FatimaSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Karolina MatuszekSchool of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Australia.
Jianbo TangSchool of Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, 2052, Australia.
Kourosh Kalantar-ZadehSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2008, Australia.
Nastaran MeftahiARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Chris F McConvilleDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Aaron ElbourneSchool of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Salvy P RussoSchool of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Andrew J ChristoffersonSchool of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Ken ChiangSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.
Torben DaenekeSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1142-8646

Funding

Australian Research Council DP220101923Australian Research Council DP230102813Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australian Research Council CE170100039Research Training Program scholarship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystallization of alloys from a molten state is a fundamental process underpinning metallurgy. Here the direct imaging of an intermetallic precipitation reaction at equilibrium in a liquid-metal environment is demonstrated. It is shown that the outer layers of a solidified intermetallic are surprisingly unstable to the depths of several nanometers, fluctuating between a crystalline and a liquid state. This effect, referred to herein as crystal interface liquefaction, is observed at remarkably low temperatures and results in highly unstable crystal interfaces at temperatures exceeding 200 K below the bulk melting point of the solid. In general, any liquefaction process would occur at or close to the formal melting point of a solid, thus differentiating the observed liquefaction phenomenon from other processes such as surface pre-melting or conventional bulk melting. Crystal interface liquefaction is observed in a variety of binary alloy systems and as such, the findings may impact the understanding of crystallization and solidification processes in metallic systems and alloys more generally.

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binary alloysCuGa2gallium colloidliquefactionliquid metalnanodroplets

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PMID38704677
PMCPMC11234468

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