TY - CONF A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Sommer, Konstantin A1 - Hesse, René A1 - Bettge, Dirk T1 - Revealing the Nature of Melt Pool Boundaries in Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel by Nano-sized Modulation N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic alloys has gained momentum in the past decade for industrial applications. The microstructures of AM metallic alloys are complex and hierarchical from the macroscopic to the nanometer scale. When using laser-based powder bed fusion (L-PBF) process, two main microstructural features emerge at the nanoscale: the melt pool boundaries (MPB) and the solidification cellular substructure. Here, details of the MPB are revealed to clearly show the three-dimensional nature of MPBs with changes of cell growth of direction and their relation to their surrounding cellular substructure, as investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for L-PBF 316L austenitic stainless steel (cf. Figure 1). A hitherto unknown modulated substructure with a period of 21 nm is further discovered within cells as the result of a partial Ga+-focused ion beam-induced ferritic transformation of the austenite. Cell cores and cell boundaries differ notably regarding the modulated substructure. T2 - 3. Fachtagung Werkstoffe und Additive Fertigung 2022 CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 11.05.2022 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Austenitic steel 316L KW - Melt pool boundary KW - Microstructural characterization KW - Transmission electron microscopy PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-54836 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -