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Spheroidization of Sulfide in Sulfur Bearing Steels by Oxygen: An Experimental and First-Principle Investigation

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The morphology of single-particle manganese sulfide (MnS) in sulfur bearing steel without oxygen is polyhedral, while it is spherical in the steel containing 70 ppm oxygen. Oxygen can dissolve in MnS to form oxysulfide (Mn(S,O)), the dissolution form of oxygen in MnS is both the substitutional and interstitial solution. The difference in the surface energies of Mn(S,O) is significantly smaller than that of MnS, this is the root cause for oxygen to spheroidize sulfides.

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The authors gratefully express their appreciation to National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52074179) for supporting this work. One of the authors, Xiangyu Xu, gratefully acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program No. 52104335) and Shanghai “Super Postdoctoral” Incentive Plan (Grant No. 2020194).

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    Qianren Tian, Guangjie Song, Songtao Liu, Xiangyu Xu & Jianxun Fu

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    Qianren Tian, Guangjie Song, Songtao Liu, Xiangyu Xu & Jianxun Fu

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Tian, Q., Song, G., Liu, S. et al. Spheroidization of Sulfide in Sulfur Bearing Steels by Oxygen: An Experimental and First-Principle Investigation. Metall Mater Trans A (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-024-07406-8

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