The mechanism of morphogenesis in a phase-separating concentrated multicomponent alloy

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 210-216

  Mao, Zugang ^a   Sudbrack, Chantal K ^a   Yoon, Kevin E ^a   Martin, Georges ^a,b   Seidman, David N ^a,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TOMOGRAPHY;

COAGULATED PRECIPITATES; MULTICOMPONENT ALLOYS; NUCLEATION BARRIERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY (3D APT);

NICKEL ALLOYS;

EID: 33847631981     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1845     Document Type: Article

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