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The effect of minute Cr additions on dendritic growth directions in Al-20 wt pct Zn alloy has been investigated. As first evidenced by Gonzales and Rappaz (Metall Mater Trans A 37:2797–2806, 2006) Al-Zn alloys exhibit a Dendrite Orientation Transition (DOT), from 〈100〉 below 25 wt pct Zn to 〈110〉 above 60 wt pct, regardless of the solidification speed. The DOT has been interpreted as a modification of the solid–liquid interfacial energy anisotropy (Gonzales and Rappaz, 2006; Haxhimali et al. in Nat Mater 5:660–664, 2006). However, 0.02 to 0.1 wt pct addition of Cr in Al-20 wt pct Zn drastically modifies the dendrite trunk direction from 〈100〉 to 〈110〉 at low solidification speed, typically 200 μm/s. Even more surprising, 〈100〉 dendrite trunks are retrieved in Al-20 wt pct Zn-0.1 wt pct Cr when the speed is increased to 1000 μm/s, but with the concurrent formation of twinned dendrites. Minute additions of Cr have been reported recently to promote icosahedral short range order (ISRO) in liquid Al-Zn, thus reducing the atomic mobility (Kurtuldu et al. in Acta Mater 115:423–433, 2016) and modifying the nucleation kinetics (Kurtuldu et al. in Acta Mater 61:7098–7108, 2013). The present results indicate that ISRO also modifies the attachment kinetics of icosahedral clusters rather than individual atoms, and is most likely responsible of growth direction change in Al-Zn-Cr alloy and of twinned dendrites formation.
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The authors thank Constellium C-TEC, Voreppe, France for its financial support. They also thank the staff of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. The authors acknowledge the valuable assistance of Jean-Daniel Wagnière to perform BS and DS experiments, Emmanuelle Boehm-Courjault for EBSD measurements, André Phillion, Jonathan Friedli, Jérôme Lozat and Julie Fife for their contribution during X-ray microtomography measurements.
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Kurtuldu, G., Jarry, P. & Rappaz, M. Influence of Minor Cr-Additions to the Growth of Columnar Dendrites in Al-Zn Alloys: Influence of Icosahedral Short Range Order in the Liquid. Metall Mater Trans A 51, 279–288 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05493-6
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