Grain rotation and coupled grain boundary motion in two-dimensional binary hexagonal materials
arXiv:2112.11553 · doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117583
Abstract
The dynamical mechanisms underlying the grain evolution and growth are of fundamental importance in controlling the structural properties of large-scale polycrystalline materials, but the effects of lattice ordering and distinct atomic species in multi-component material systems are still not well understood. We study these effects through the phase field crystal modeling of embedded curved grains in two-dimensional hexagonal materials, by examining and comparing the results of grain rotation, shrinking, and grain boundary dynamics over the full range of misorientation in binary systems of hexagonal boron nitride and single-component graphene monolayers. Calculations of the relation between grain radius and misorientation angle during time evolution reveal the normal-tangential coupled motion of the grain boundary matching the Cahn-Taylor formulation, as well as the transition to sliding and the regime of grain motion without rotation. The key effect of two-component sublattice ordering is identified, showing as a dual behavior of both positive and negative coupling modes with grains rotating towards increasing and decreasing angles, which is absent in two-dimensional single-component systems. The corresponding mechanisms are beyond the purely geometric considerations and require the energetic contribution from the difference between heteroelemental and homoelemental atomic bondings and the subsequent availability of a diverse variety of defect core structures and transformations. This indicates the important role played by the lattice inversion symmetry breaking in binary or multi-component materials, causing the change of detailed microstructures and dynamics of dislocation defects at grain boundaries as compared to single-component materials.
arXiv comment38 pages, 8 figures
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