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ABSTRACT What determines the morphology of a decomposing alloy? Besides the well-established effect of the nucleation barrier, we demonstrate that, in a concentrated multicomponent Ni(Al,Cr)
alloy, the details of the diffusion mechanism strongly affect the kinetic pathway of precipitation. Our argument is based on the combined use of atomic-scale observations, using
three-dimensional atom-probe tomography (3D APT), lattice kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and the theory of diffusion. By an optimized choice of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters, we
first reproduce the 3D APT observations, in particular the early-stage transient occurrence of coagulated precipitates. We then modify the kinetic correlations among the atomic fluxes in the
simulation, without altering the thermodynamic driving force for phase separation, by changing the vacancy–solute interactions, resulting in a suppression of coagulation. Such changes can
only be quantitatively accounted for with non-zero values for the off-diagonal terms of the Onsager matrix, at variance with classical models. Access through your institution Buy or
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National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research, under contract DMR-0241928. C.K.S. received partial support from an NSF graduate research fellowship, a W. P. Murphy Fellowship
and a Northwestern University terminal year fellowship. K.E.Y. received partial support from a NASA graduate fellowship. T. F. Kelly, Imago Scientific Instruments, is kindly thanked for the
use of a LEAP tomograph before our acquisition of this instrument. The authors thank M. Asta, M. Athènes, P. Bellon, E. Clouet, M. Nastar and F. Soisson who interacted in many helpful
discussions and S. M. Foiles for his grand canonical Monte Carlo code. G.M. was partially supported by an Eshbach Visiting Scholar Award from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied
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Zugang Mao, Chantal K. Sudbrack, Kevin E. Yoon, Georges Martin & David N. Seidman * Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, Cabinet du Haut Commissaire, Bâtiment Siège, 91191 Gif sur Yvette
Cedex, France Georges Martin * Northwestern University Centre for Atom-Probe Tomography, Northwestern University, Cook Hall, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA David N. Seidman
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simulation; C.K.S. and K.E.Y. carried out the 3D APT experiments; D.N.S. supervised and mentored Z.M., C.K.S. and K.E.Y.; G.M. analysed the observations in terms of diffusion theory.
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