First Principles Study of Bonding Mechanisms at the TiAl/TiO2 Interface
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Computational Details
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Surface Energy
3.2. Work of Separation
3.3. Atomic and Electronic Factors
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Compound | TiAl | Compound | TiO2 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surface | (100) | (111) | (011) | Surface | (110)O | (100)O | (001) | (011)O |
Present result PAW-PBE | 1.69 | 1.71 | 2.10 | Present result PAW-PBE | 0.46 | 0.62 | 1.20 | 1.02 |
[40] PAW-GGA | 1.62 | 1.69 | [28] PAW-GGA | 0.46 | 0.56 | 1.44 | 1.05 | |
[41] PAW-LDA | 1.91 | [42] PAW-GGA | 0.50 | 0.69 | 1.25 | 1.03 | ||
[43] US PP LDA | 0.89 | 1.12 | 1.40 | 1.65 |
Alloy Termination | Configuration | Wsep | d |
---|---|---|---|
Al | hollow | 1.27 | 0.75 |
top | 0.74 | 1.38 | |
[28] | 0.58–1.64 | ||
Ti | hollow | 2.44 | 0.62 |
top | 1.97 | 0.50 | |
[30] | 4.97 |
Atom | Q | d | θ | Atom | Q | d | θ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TiAl(110)Al/TiO2(110)O | TiAl(110)Ti/TiO2(110)O | ||||||
Ti1I+1 O1I | +1.99 –0.93 | 2.20 | 0.183 | Ti1I+1 O1I | +2.00 –1.00 | 2.07 | 0.253 |
Ti2I+1 O2I | +2.01 –0.92 | 2.07 | 0.255 | Ti2I+1 O2I | +1.89 –0.83 | 2.23 | 0.183 |
O1I Al1I | –0.93 +0.69 | 1.89, 1.78 [28] | 0.481 | O1I Ti1I | –1.00 +0.82 | 1.98, 2.22–2.31 [30] | 0.483 |
O2I TiI–1 | –0.92 +0.42 | 1.92, 2.08 [28] | 0.594 | O2I AlI–1 | –0.83 –0.02 | 2.07, 1.90 [30] | 0.403 |
OI+1 Al2I | –1.00 +0.19 | 1.90, 1.85 [28] | 0.559 | OI+1 Ti2I | –1.14 +0.51 | 2.04, 1.92 [30] | 0.505 |
TiAl(110)Al surface 1 | TiAl(110)Ti surface | ||||||
AlS TiS–1 | –0.24 +0.29 | 2.90 | 0.277 | TiS AlS–1 | +0.17 –0.30 | 2.84 | 0.302 |
TiO2(110)O surface | |||||||
OS TiS+1 | –0.88 +2.13 | 1.85 | 0.406 | ||||
OS+1 TiS+1 | –1.13 +2.13 | 1.95–2.03 | 0.279–0.340 |
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Bakulin, A.V.; Kulkov, S.S.; Kulkova, S.E.; Hocker, S.; Schmauder, S. First Principles Study of Bonding Mechanisms at the TiAl/TiO2 Interface. Metals 2020, 10, 1298. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101298
Bakulin AV, Kulkov SS, Kulkova SE, Hocker S, Schmauder S. First Principles Study of Bonding Mechanisms at the TiAl/TiO2 Interface. Metals. 2020; 10(10):1298. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101298
Chicago/Turabian StyleBakulin, Alexander V., Sergey S. Kulkov, Svetlana E. Kulkova, Stephen Hocker, and Siegfried Schmauder. 2020. "First Principles Study of Bonding Mechanisms at the TiAl/TiO2 Interface" Metals 10, no. 10: 1298. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101298