文摘
Nickel-based superalloys are widely used as high temperature materials for turbine blades in aerospace industry and land-based applications. Their structural characterization, however, is mostly carried out at the room temperature. Here, the microstructure of the superalloys was studied at high temperature, 1000 °C, through aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope imaging. It is the first time that both evaporation and reconstruction of alloying elements were observed with the atomic resolution at the high temperature.