title: Incontinuous grain growth in cobalt nanocrystalline powders prepared by high-energy mechanical milling.
abstract: Cobalt nanocrystalline powders with the average grain size of about 17 nm were prepared by high-energy mechanical milling. Grain growth in highly pure and particle-containing nanocrystalline Co powders were investigated respectively by a series of annealing experiments at different temperatures. The characteristics of incontinuous grain growth were found in both the pure and the particle-containing nanocrystalline powders. It is proposed by the authors that the sharp increase in nanograin size in the transition between the low and high temperature regions is a result of enhanced grain growth promoted by the stored energy as a supplied driving force, based on which rapid grain growth occurs through a particular dominant mechanism of nanograin rotations in the pure nanocrystalline powders, and that through off-pinning of grain boundaries in the particle-containing nanocrystalline powders.
authors.affiliation: College of Materials Science and Engineering, The Key Lab of Functional Materials of the Education Ministry, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, P R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Keyong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jiuxing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D003035:Cobalt / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D036103:Nanotechnology; D011208:Powders
chemical_list: D011208:Powders; D003035:Cobalt