Rapid Screening Of Alloy Elements To Improve The Elastic Properties Of Dilute Pt-Based Alloys: High-Throughput First-Principles Calculations And Modeling

Platinum (Pt)-based dilute solid solutions are an important category of high-temperature alloys and bond coatings. In this study, the effects of 33 alloying elements on the mechanical and electronic properties of dilute Pt-based solid solutions are systematically investigated under atom relaxation and full relaxation using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The negative mixing enthalpy of Pt-dilute solid solutions means that the solubility of the solute elements in the Pt-based dilute alloys is energetically favorable at 0K. Niobium, rhenium, and scandium are promising candidate elements for increasing the hardness and ductility of dilute Pt-based solid solutions. In addition, the electronic basis for the mechanical properties of Pt-dilute solid solutions is investigated in terms of the electronic density and mean bond population. The results demonstrate that the Pt-X bond lengths are shorter than the Pt-Pt bond length, resulting in greater hardness. Moreover, the model for the composition dependent elastic properties is built based on the CALPHAD approach, which will be used to the Pt-based multiphase alloys in the future. As certain alloying elements improve the hardness and ductility of Pt, this research expands our knowledge of the mechanism of dilute Pt-based solid solutions and provides a basis for next-generation superalloys or bond coatings at higher temperatures.