Low-hysteresis shape-memory ceramics designed by multimode modelling

Edward L. Pang, Gregory B. Olson and Christopher A. Schuh ()
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Edward L. Pang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gregory B. Olson: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher A. Schuh: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2022, vol. 610, issue 7932, 491-495

Abstract: Abstract Zirconia ceramics exhibit a martensitic phase transformation that enables large strains of order 10%, making them prospects for shape-memory and superelastic applications at high temperature1–5. Similarly to other martensitic materials, this transformation strain can be engineered by carefully alloying to produce a more commensurate transformation with reduced hysteresis (difference in transformation temperature on heating and cooling)6–11. However, such ‘lattice engineering’ in zirconia is complicated by additional physical constraints: there is a secondary need to manage a large transformation volume change12, and to achieve transformation temperatures high enough to avoid kinetic barriers6. Here we present a method of augmenting the lattice engineering approach to martensite design to address these additional constraints, incorporating modern computational thermodynamics and data science tools to span complex multicomponent spaces for which no data yet exist. The result is a new zirconia composition with record low hysteresis of 15 K, which is about ten times less transformation hysteresis compared to typical values (and approximately five times less than the best values reported so far). This finding demonstrates that zirconia ceramics can exhibit hysteresis values of the order of those of widely deployed shape-memory alloys, paving the way for their use as viable high-temperature shape-memory materials.

Date: 2022
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