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Atomistic mechanism of corrosion-induced grain boundary migration in NiCr alloys in molten FLiNaK

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Pith's one-line read Simulations show molten salt drives NiCr grain boundaries to migrate, while coherent twin boundaries stay put.

desk verdict The localization story is solid, but the migration claim is confounded by the CNA tracking metric and needs much stronger evidence before it can be believed. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.16167 v1 pith:DV3SHLC7 submitted 2026-07-17 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Sadia Khan , Hamdy Arkoub , Miaomiao Jin This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords moltensaltcorrosionNiCralloysFLiNaKgrainboundarymigrationdiffusion-inducedreactivemoleculardynamicsdealloyingengineering
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The reading

The paper sets out to show that grain boundaries in nickel–chromium alloys are not passive corrosion pathways in molten FLiNaK salt but dynamic interfaces that move as the salt attacks them. Using reactive molecular dynamics, it compares four types of boundaries and finds that open high-energy boundaries such as Σ5 concentrate fluorine adsorption and selectively dissolve chromium, leaving a vacancy-rich, Cr-depleted zone that pushes the boundary into the intact grain. With salt present, the Σ5 boundaries shift roughly 3.6–3.9 Å over 500 ps, versus 0.45–1.60 Å without salt. The coherent Σ3 twin, by contrast, stays nearly fixed. If correct, the result connects atomistic corrosion chemistry to the wavy, channel-like intergranular damage seen in experiments and points to twin-boundary engineering as a corrosion-resistance strategy.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is a dealloying-driven form of diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM), a named mechanism in which a moving grain boundary leaves behind a compositionally altered wake. Here the salt continuously removes chromium rather than adding solute, so the boundary advances away from the Cr-depleted, vacancy-rich region. The simulations are carried out with a reactive force field for FLiNaK on Ni–Cr that allows metal–fluorine bonds to form and break, and boundary positions are tracked with common-neighbor analysis, which identifies disordered atoms at high-angle boundaries and HCP atoms at the coherent twin. The combination lets the authors separate surface-orienta

What would settle it

An independent first-principles calculation of fluorine and chromium binding energies at the Σ5(012) and Σ5(013) boundary sites that disagrees with the force-field predictions, or a bicrystal experiment in which a high-angle boundary in Ni–20Cr immersed in molten FLiNaK at 800 °C does not migrate more than a twin boundary while chromium is depleted, would settle whether the claimed mechanism is real.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is a corrosion-driven grain boundary migration mechanism that the authors describe as a dealloying-driven form of diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM). In the simulations, fluorine from FLiNaK penetrates the open structure of Σ5(012) and Σ5(013) boundaries, forms Cr–F bonds preferentially at boundary-adjacent sites, and weakens Cr–Ni metallic coordination, promoting selective chromium removal. The resulting chromium depletion and vacancy supersaturation along the boundary drive the boundary to migrate away from the corroded zone into the undisturbed material, leaving behind a Ni-enriched, Cr-depleted wake that retains the FCC lattice. This migration is grai

Load-bearing premise

The mechanism rests on the reactive force field for FLiNaK on Ni–Cr being accurate specifically in grain-boundary environments: if it mis-weights how strongly fluorine binds chromium versus nickel at boundary sites, the entire localization→dissolution→migration chain could be an artifact of the potential.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • High-energy Σ5 boundaries act as localized corrosion channels: they concentrate fluorine adsorption, chromium dissolution, and vacancy accumulation at the boundary plane, so pit-like damage develops at the boundary rather than uniformly across the surface.
  • Corrosion-assisted boundary migration leaves a Ni-enriched, Cr-depleted wake with the same FCC lattice, altering near-boundary composition and making the swept region less susceptible to further dissolution.
  • The coherent Σ3(111) twin suppresses both fluorine localization and boundary migration even when its exposed (110)-type surface is intrinsically reactive, making increased twin fraction a candidate grain-boundary-engineering strategy for corrosion resistance.
  • The planar grain-boundary migration captured here is a plausible early-stage precursor to the one-dimensional wormhole channels seen experimentally, implying that intergranular attack may become self-sustaining as the boundary moves while the salt continues to supply fluorine and drain chromium.
  • Two simultaneous conditions appear necessary for this degradation path: sufficient fluorine activity in the salt and a structurally open boundary; raising the fraction of low-energy special boundaries should suppress corrosion-assisted migration.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension: if the mechanism is correct, bicrystal corrosion experiments should reveal a Cr-depleted, Ni-enriched band just ahead of migrating high-angle boundaries at early times, before wormhole channels fully develop.
  • The same coupled dealloying–DIGM picture may apply to other molten halide salts and to other alloys with a selectively dissolved reactive component, since the ingredients—salt-driven selective removal, vacancy accumulation, and boundary openness—are generic.
  • The paper's two conditions suggest a screening metric: grain-boundary excess volume combined with fluorine binding energy at boundary sites could rank boundary types for corrosion resistance without running full reactive simulations.
  • Because surface orientation controls the initial dissolution rate, twin-boundary engineering may be partially masked in components exposing reactive (110) textures; surface crystallography and boundary character likely need to be optimized together.
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Summary. The paper uses reactive molecular dynamics (ReaxFF) with the FLiNaK–NiCr force field to simulate corrosion of Ni75Cr25 bicrystals containing four grain boundaries (Σ3(111), Σ11(113), Σ5(012), Σ5(013)) and compares them to bulk (110) and (100) surfaces with and without molten FLiNaK. The central claims are: (i) corrosion is initially controlled by surface orientation, while GB character controls spatial localization at longer times; (ii) Σ5 boundaries localize F adsorption, Cr dissolution, and vacancy accumulation, leading to pit-like recession; and (iii) this localized dealloying drives corrosion-assisted GB migration, interpreted as dealloying-driven diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM), whereas the coherent Σ3 twin suppresses this coupling. The authors propose low-energy special boundaries as a GB-engineering strategy for corrosion resistance.

Significance. If the migration claim is correct, the paper provides a concrete atomistic mechanism connecting GB character to molten-salt corrosion and DIGM, with direct implications for GB engineering of Ni–Cr alloys. The simulation design is careful: it includes no-salt controls, 8 independent seeds per system, two surface orientations to deconfound surface and GB effects, and a 1 ns extension that supports the delayed GB-character crossover. The spatial correlation between F coverage, Cr dissolution, and GB-localized damage is a useful contribution regardless of the migration interpretation. However, the paper's central quantitative claim—enhanced GB migration—rests on a boundary-tracking metric that may conflate true migration with preferential corrosion/reclassification at the GB, and the force field itself is developed by the same group and encodes the chemistry that the paper then reports as discovered. Both issues need to be addressed before the mechanism can be considered established.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.2, Fig. 6] The GB position is defined as the mean coordinate of atoms identified as non-FCC (or HCP for Σ3) by CNA, with only the top/bottom 5% of the slab excluded. This metric cannot distinguish true GB migration from preferential dissolution and structural disordering at the boundary. The Σ5 systems show GB-centered dissolution (Fig. 2c,d), F penetration (Fig. 5c,d), vacancy accumulation, and pit-like recession (Fig. 3). If boundary atoms are preferentially removed or neighboring lattice atoms become disordered by vacancy accumulation, the CNA centroid will shift even if neither grain grows relative to the other. The authors argue that the wake remains FCC and Ni-enriched (Fig. 6b,c), but preferential Cr dissolution from a stationary disordered GB core would leave exactly the same signature. To support the DIGM claim, the authors must use an orientation-independent marker of the two grain lattic
  2. [Fig. 6a, Table S2] Figure 6a reports mean GB displacements without error bars or statistical significance. With 8 seeds per system, the reported salt-induced shifts (~3.56 Å for Σ5(012), ~3.89 Å for Σ5(013)) must be shown to exceed seed-to-seed variation, and compared against the no-salt controls (0.45–1.60 Å) with a proper statistical test. Currently, the reader cannot assess whether the 'substantial enhancement' is robust or whether the apparent differences are within thermal/statistical noise. Please report per-seed data, confidence intervals, and an appropriate significance test for each GB and condition.
  3. [§2.1/§3.3] The mechanism's pre-conditions—that F binds Cr preferentially, that Σ5 GB sites bind F more strongly, and that Cr dissolution from GB sites has a lower barrier—are largely encoded in the ReaxFF force field developed by members of this team (ref [10]) and in the same group's DFT study (ref [23]). The paper presents no benchmark against independent, non-training data for GB vacancy mobility, Cr–F binding at GB sites, or GB migration kinetics. This is a correctness-risk concern: if the potential mis-weights Cr–F vs Ni–F interactions near GB seams, the entire chain from F localization to vacancy supersaturation to migration could be a force-field artifact. I am not asking for a new force field, but the authors should provide explicit validation or sensitivity tests (e.g., against DFT for representative GB dissolution barriers, or comparisons with measured GB migration rates) and clearly stat
minor comments (4)
  1. [Fig. 6a caption] The caption should state explicitly that no error bars are shown and refer to the per-seed data in Table S2.
  2. [§2.2] The dissolution criterion (metal-neighbor count below three) and F-adsorption criterion (bonded to two or more non-dissolved metals) are presented as thresholds but their sensitivity is not discussed. Please add a brief sensitivity statement or cite a prior calibration.
  3. [§3.3] The phrase 'vacancy supersaturation' is used to explain the driving force, but no direct vacancy concentration profile is reported. A quantitative vacancy-density profile near the GB would strengthen the mechanistic claim.
  4. [General] Several references are to the same author team's prior work (refs [9,10,23,53]) and are used to justify both the method and the interpretation. It would be helpful to explicitly distinguish validated, literature-supported facts from assumptions inherited from those studies.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: GB migration is an emergent simulation result anchored to external DIGM work; main caveats are same-team force field/DFT premises and a CNA metric partially confounded with localized corrosion.

full rationale

The claimed derivation chain is: ReaxFF FLiNaK–NiCr potential (Arkoub et al. [10], same team) → RMD trajectories → observed preferential Cr dissolution, GB-localized F coverage, vacancy/pit formation, and CNA-tracked GB displacement → interpretation as dealloying-driven DIGM, anchored to independent experimental wormhole/DIGM work [24–26] and classical DIGM theory [27–29]. Walking this chain, I find no step in which a prediction or first-principles result is equivalent to its inputs by construction. The central new claim — salt exposure shifts Σ5-boundary centroids by ~3.56–3.89 Å vs 0.45–1.60 Å no-salt, with a Cr-depleted, Ni-enriched FCC wake and strong GB-character dependence — is an emergent observable of the trajectories: nothing in the force-field fit encodes GB migration magnitudes or GB-character-dependent behavior, so no fitted parameter is being renamed as a prediction. The Cr-over-Ni dissolution preference is indeed inherited from the same team's fitted potential and DFT premises [10,23], but the paper presents it as consistency with, rather than proof of, prior work. The DFT premise that Σ5 sites enhance F binding and lower Cr dissolution barriers [23] is parameter-free first-principles evidence with overlapping authorship; under the review rules it is real evidence and does not constitute circularity, though it means the mechanism's precondition is self-supplied rather than independently benchmarked. The genuine caveat is the CNA-based migration metric (§2.2, Fig. 6): the tracked quantity (mean coordinate of non-FCC atoms) is evaluated in the very region the paper shows undergoing GB-centered dissolution, vacancy clustering, and pit-like recession (Figs. 2c,d, 3), so 'migration' is partially confounded with localized erosion/reclassification; the FCC-wake discriminator can also result from preferential Cr removal at a stationary disordered core. This is a measurement-validity risk, however, not an equation-level circularity (no Eq. X = Eq. Y), so under the strict rules it is not scored as a circular step. Minor supporting observations: the paper itself acknowledges the F-coverage metric's cutoff dependence and excludes only the top/bottom 5% of the cell when tracking GB positions; Fig. 6a shows no error bars, leaving seed-to-seed scatter unquantified. These are rigor issues, not circularity. Overall the derivation is self-contained against external experimental benchmarks, with only minor, non-load-bearing self-citation.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The explanatory load sits almost entirely on the prior fitted potential (same group) and on hand-set analysis thresholds; the new contribution is the emergent dynamical observation, not new free parameters or new physics inputs. No new particles, forces, mediators, or conserved quantities are introduced; the 'vacancy-supersaturated DIGM zone' is borrowed from the experimental literature [24].

free parameters (2)
  • ReaxFF FLiNaK–NiCr force-field parameters = fitted to DFT reference data in Arkoub et al. [10] (not reproduced here)
    Every mechanistic output (F–Cr energetics, dissolution barriers, GB vacancy mobility and migration) is determined by this potential, which is the same author group's fitted model; no independent re-validation for GB migration kinetics is provided.
  • Dissolution/F-adsorption thresholds and bin widths = r(F–M) cutoff = 0.8(r_vdW_F + r_vdW_M); metal-neighbor count < 3 = dissolved; F adsorbed when bonded to ≥2 non-dissolved
    Hand-chosen as 'robust against thermal fluctuations'; they set absolute dissolution and F-coverage values. The paper itself notes the F-coverage result depends on the cutoff, weakening absolute cross-orientation comparisons.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The ReaxFF force field of [10] is transferable to GB environments and GB migration kinetics beyond its training/validation set
    Invoked at §2.1 ('with the FLiNaK–NiCr force field developed and validated by Arkoub et al. [10]'); no benchmark against independent F-GB data, vacancy-migration data, or experimental migration rates is offered.
  • domain assumption A 500 ps NVT trajectory at 800°C with 0.25 fs timestep samples representative corrosion kinetics
    §2.1; only one 1 ns extension (Fig. S1) is mentioned, used only to support the delayed dissolution crossover; the GB migration metric is not checked for convergence or block-stability.
  • domain assumption CNA-based GB-atom identification plus mean-position tracking measures true boundary migration rather than preferential boundary erosion
    §2.2; no-salt control shifts up to 1.60 Å show the metric is sensitive to thermal disorder; the erosion-vs-migration distinction is argued only via the qualitative FCC, Ni-enriched wake morphology.
  • domain assumption The classical DIGM framework (solute-uptake-driven migration) transfers to the molten-salt dealloying case where the solute is removed, not added
    §3.3 extends [27–29]; the paper itself notes the molten-salt case is 'qualitatively distinct' (continuous solute removal) and substitutes vacancy supersaturation as the driving agent — a picture consistent with [24] but not independently established here.

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abstract

Corrosion of Ni-Cr structural alloys in molten fluoride salts is a persistent material degradation problem, yet the atomistic role of grain boundaries in this process remains poorly understood. Here we use reactive molecular dynamics to investigate corrosion of NiCr alloys in molten FLiNaK across four representative grain boundaries ($\Sigma3(111)$, $\Sigma11(113)$, $\Sigma5(012)$, and $\Sigma5(013)$) and corresponding bulk surfaces. Surface crystallography controls the initial dissolution stage, while grain boundary character governs the spatial localization and longer-time evolution of corrosion. We further identify a corrosion-driven grain boundary migration mechanism in which fluorine localization, preferential chromium dissolution, and vacancy-mediated mobility together drive interfacial motion away from the dealloyed region. The coherent $\Sigma3(111)$ boundary suppresses these processes, indicating low-energy special boundaries as targets for grain boundary engineering of corrosion-resistant Ni-Cr alloys.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Top view of the structures (a) Σ5(012), (b) Σ5(013), (c) Σ3(111), (d) Σ11(113), (e) Bulk(110), and (f) Bulk(100). (g) Representative salt-alloy system. Structure Relaxed Cell Dimensions (with salt) (Å) Salt Molecules (LiF, KF, NaF) Metal Atoms (Ni, Cr) Total Atoms Σ3(111)[110] 61.89 × 26.23 × 40.38 400, 361, 99 2167, 713 4600 Σ5(012)[100] 64.46 × 24.01 × 35.64 337, 304, 83 1809, 591 3848 Σ5(013)[100] 68.60 × 22.53 ×… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Dissolution of Ni and Cr atoms per surface area for (a) (100) surfaces and (b) (110) surfaces [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Snapshots of the surface mesh of NiCr slabs with GBs captured at 0 ps, 250 ps, and 500 ps. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Two–dimensional diffusion coefficients of Ni and Cr atoms in the top layer for all structures [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Fluorine coverage per surface area (Å−2 ) vs. time (ps) for structures with (a) (100) surface and (b) (110) surface. Local Fluorine coverage per area (Å−2 ) along the direction normal to the GB plane for (c) Σ5(012), (d) Σ5(013), (e) Σ3(111), and (f) Σ11(113). Shaded b…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: (a) GB shift for the four GB structures with and without molten salt exposure after 500 ps. (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]

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