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Influence of the grain boundary character on the temperature of transition to complete wetting in the Cu–In system

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The incomplete to complete grain boundary (GB) wetting transition is controlled by GB energy and, therefore, by GB character. To find the GB character dependence of the wetting transition, experiments were carried out on polycrystalline Cu–In alloys, which are known to exhibit wetting behaviour between 715 and 986 °C. Electron backscatter diffraction was applied to determine the two-dimensional GB character, using the coincidence site lattice (CSL) model and applying the Brandon criterion. Special wetting behaviour was found in those GBs characterised as low-angle, Σ3 and Σ11. The low-angle and Σ3 GBs were not wetted until the sample melted, while the temperature for the transition to complete wetting of Σ11 GBs was over 100 °C higher than that for complete wetting of all other types of GB, including other CSL GB as well as random GB. It might be that a different Brandon type criterion is needed in the case of GB wetting to show the “special” wetting behaviour of the CSL GBs.

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Acknowledgements

The authors want to thank Mrs. Kornelia Strieso and Mr. Norbert Lindner for help in metallographic preparation and SEM measurements. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 14-08-00972), The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the Framework of Increase Competitiveness Program of MISiS and the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme of the European Union.

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    Boris B. Straumal

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Straumal, A.B., Yardley, V.A., Straumal, B.B. et al. Influence of the grain boundary character on the temperature of transition to complete wetting in the Cu–In system. J Mater Sci 50, 4762–4771 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-9025-x

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