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4. Chemical Partitioning at Crystalline Defects in PtAu as a Pathway to Stabilize Electrocatalysts

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Zhou, Xuyang, Kasian, Olga, Luo, Ting, Kim, Se-Ho, Zhang, Chenyu, Zhang, Siyuan, Lee, Subin, Thompson, Gregory B., Dehm, Gerhard, Gault, Baptiste, and Raabe, Dierk

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Physics - Chemical Physics
Abstract

Dissolution of electrocatalysts during long-term and dynamic operation is a challenging problem in energy conversion and storage devices such as fuel cells and electrolyzers. To develop stable electrocatalysts, we adopt the design concept of segregation engineering, which uses solute segregation prone to electrochemical dissolution at internal defects, i.e., grain boundaries and dislocations. We showcase the feasibility of this approach by stabilizing a model Pt catalyst with an addition of more noble Au (approximately 5 atomic percent). We characterized the defects' nanoscale structure and chemistry, and monitored the electrochemical dissolution of Pt and PtAu alloys by online inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Once segregated to defects, Au atoms can stabilize and hence passivate the most vulnerable sites against electrochemical dissolution and improve the stability and longevity of the Pt electrocatalysts by more than an order of magnitude. This opens pathways to use solute segregation to defects for the development of more stable nanoscale electrocatalysts, a concept applicable for a wide range of catalytic systems.

Published
2022

10. Revealing in-plane grain boundary composition features through machine learning from atom probe tomography data

Author

Zhou, Xuyang, Wei, Ye, Kühbach, Markus, Zhao, Huan, Vogel, Florian, Kamachali, Reza Darvishi, Thompson, Gregory B., Raabe, Dierk, and Gault, Baptiste

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Abstract

Grain boundaries (GBs) are planar lattice defects that govern the properties of many types of polycrystalline materials. Hence, their structures have been investigated in great detail. However, much less is known about their chemical features, owing to the experimental difficulties to probe these features at the atomic length scale inside bulk material specimens. Atom probe tomography (APT) is a tool capable of accomplishing this task, with an ability to quantify chemical characteristics at near-atomic scale. Using APT data sets, we present here a machine-learning-based approach for the automated quantification of chemical features of GBs. We trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) using twenty thousand synthesized images of grain interiors, GBs, or triple junctions. Such a trained CNN automatically detects the locations of GBs from APT data. Those GBs are then subjected to compositional mapping and analysis, including revealing their in-plane chemical decoration patterns. We applied this approach to experimentally obtained APT data sets pertaining to three case studies, namely, Ni-P, Pt-Au, and Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys. In the first case, we extracted GB-specific segregation features as a function of misorientation and coincidence site lattice character. Secondly, we revealed interfacial excesses and in-plane chemical features that could not have been found by standard compositional analyses. Lastly, we tracked the temporal evolution of chemical decoration from early-stage solute GB segregation in the dilute limit to interfacial phase separation, characterized by the evolution of complex composition patterns. This machine-learning-based approach provides quantitative, unbiased, and automated access to GB chemical analyses, serving as an enabling tool for new discoveries related to interface thermodynamics, kinetics, and the associated chemistry-structure-property relations.

Published
2021

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