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ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams Database: (formerly known as Phase Diagrams for Ceramists)

The Phase Equilibria Diagrams PC Database, Version 5.2 (2024) 

Credit: Terrell Vanderah

Phase Equilibria Diagrams, (PED, Standard Reference Database SRD 31), published from 1964 to 1992 as the well-known Phase Diagrams for Ceramists "blue books", is the result of a long-standing collaboration between NIST and The American Ceramic Society to develop and maintain a state-of-the-art database of critically evaluated phase equilibria data for industrial and academic customers. The diagrams serve as maps of the equilibrium chemical and structural behaviors exhibited by materials (non-organic, non-metallic) and provide critical starting information for the rational design of processing schemes, for quality assurance efforts, for optimization of physical and chemical properties, and for the development of new materials.

This comprehensive, searchable PED application includes all content previously published in all 21 hard-copy books (Phase Diagrams for Ceramists; Phase Equilibria Diagrams; special-issue topical volumes). In 2005 (post Volume 14) publication transitioned to all-electronic; the latest content-update, Volume 26, is provided in this release of the database. Version 5.2 provides 33,000 phase equilibrium diagrams that provide fundamental information needed to discover or optimize materials for numerous applications ranging from semiconductors to cement to biomarkers. The data include experimental and calculated diagrams for a wide range of non-organic material-types including oxides and mixed systems with oxides, chalcogenides (sulfides, selenides, tellurides), pnictides (N, P, As, Sb, Bi), actinides (U, Pu, Th) and actinide-surrogates (Ce), oxy-cation systems (e.g. molybdates, vanadates), semiconductors (Si, Ge, Sn), group-3 systems (B, Al, Ga, In, Tl), and salts including mixed systems with salts.  New content for SRD31 is extracted from the primary scientific literature on a bimonthly basis; NIST guidelines are then used by subject-matter experts to write critical evaluations of the work and to standardize presentation of the diagrams.

As in the previous version, v 5.2 features the new JavaScript PED diagram viewer for interactive display of the diagrams.  The PED application no longer requires the installation of Java, although diagrams can still be downloaded and opened using the legacy (Java-based) PED Viewer.  The search interface is very similar to the previous series-4 versions and functions with the same software that resulted from a comprehensive upgrade of the content management system (CMS), the user interface, and the graphics digitization program (PED Editor). The new CMS is a custom-developed web-based system running under Ubuntu Linux using the Ruby programming language. The system uses Nginx web server, an SQLite database, and an object relational mapper for the GUI.

Materials researchers please note: The PED Editor digitization program is available for free download and can be used 1) to digitize phase diagrams and 2) to extract data from phase diagrams or other two-dimensional scientific drawings - see https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-standard-reference-database-31 and https://pages.nist.gov/PEDEditor/. Download PED Editor 

As in the series-4 versions, the search interface is browser-based and includes help icons at each user-input location. In addition to the previously available search criteria (chemical system, author, etc.) users are now able to perform keyword searches of the critical evaluations of all PED Figures, allowing them to associate material systems with potential applications mentioned in the text. All PED Figures are available as printable .pdf files which provide the commentary text as well as all diagrams, similar to the previous entries in the hard-copy books. In addition, all phase diagrams in the collection can be interactively displayed using the PED Viewer, and can be printed as high-quality .pdf files or downloaded as .png or .jpg files with customized resolution.

Materials covered by this database are used across a broad spectrum of technologies in applications such as optoelectronics, thermal-barrier coatings, chemical sensors, energy converters, solar cells, nuclear-waste reprocessing, nuclear-reactor technology, photovoltaics, pigments, fuel cells, catalysts, thermoelectrics, capacitors, transducers, thermoluminescence, batteries, photovoltaics, video displays, lasers, spintronics, data- storage, electrolytic refining, metallurgical processing, semiconductor manufacturing, bioceramics, and dental restoration.

The Version 5.2 content-update, Volume 26, provides 171 Figures with 767 new diagrams containing information for more than 200 material-systems not previously covered by the database. The new content in this version continues to reflect the explosion of research on the fundamental properties of materials needed to enable the transition to green-energy technologies and sustainable approaches to manufacturing, including the processing of raw materials and recycling/recovery of critical metals from secondary sources or low-grade ores. New chemical systems and diagrams in v.5.2 address needs to advance a wide variety of applications including hydrogen-production by electrolysis of water, thermal-energy storage and heat-transfer media for concentrated solar power (CSP), advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors (complex salt systems for fuel; thorium fuel-cycle; corrosion), lead-free photovoltaics with high conversion efficiencies, optical information-processing, batteries, semiconductors (processing; new materials for next-generation electronics and solar cells), lasers for optoelectronics, and advanced dental porcelain.
 

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Download free demo version 5.2.

The free demonstration version contains the same functionality as the full version, but with limited content consisting of the 202 figures published in the Phase Diagrams for Ceramists: Annual '92, and 11 figures from Volume 15.  In addition, the demonstration version serves as a searchable, comprehensive chemical index for the entire database.
 

Credit: Terrell Vanderah

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The scientific contact for this database:
Terrell Vanderah, Editor-in-Chief 
Phase Equilibria Diagrams Data Center
National Institute of Standards and Technology
MS 8520, 100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8580
(301) 975-5785 terrell.vanderah [at] nist.gov (terrell[dot]vanderah[at]nist[dot]gov)

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