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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Heather A. Murdoch, Baltimore, MD (US);
Christopher A. Schuh, Wayland, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Provided in one embodiment is a method of identifying a stable phase of an ordering binary alloy system comprising a solute element and a solvent element, the method comprising: determining at least three thermodynamic parameters associated with grain boundary segregation, phase separation, and intermetallic compound formation of the ordering binary alloy system; and identifying the stable phase of the ordering binary alloy system based on the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter by comparing the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter with a predetermined set of respective thermodynamic parameters to identify the stable phase; wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase.