Metastable Liquid Properties and Surface Flow Patterns of Ultrahigh Temperature Alloys Explored in Outer Space

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The metastable liquid properties and chemical bonds beyond 2000 K remain a huge challenge for ground-based research on liquid materials chemistry. We show the strong undercooling capability, metastable liquid properties and surface wave patterns of refractory Nb-Si and Zr-V binary alloys explored in space environment. The floating droplet of Nb82.7Si17.3 eutectic alloy superheated up to 2338 K exhibited an extreme undercooling of 437 K, approaching the 0.2TE threshold for homogeneous nucleation of liquid-solid reaction. The microgravity state endowed alloy droplets with nearly perfect sphericity and thus ensured the high accuracy to determine metastable undercooled liquid properties. A special kind of swirling flow was induced for liquid alloy owing to Marangoni convection, which resulted in the spiral microstructures on Zr64V36 alloy surface during liquid-solid phase transition. The coupled impacts of surface nucleation and surface flow brought in a novel olivary shape for these binary alloys. Furthermore, the chemical bonds and atomic structures of high temperature liquids were revealed to understand the liquid properties in outer space circumstances.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 63(2024), 15 vom: 08. Apr., Seite e202400312

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Haipeng [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Wenjun [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Chenhui [VerfasserIn]
Li, Mingxing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dingnan [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Bingbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alloys
Computational chemistry
Journal Article
Liquid properties
Outer space

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Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.202400312

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367957094