Two-way tuning of structural order in metallic glasses

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 314 - 9
• Main Authors: Lou, Hongbo, Zeng, Zhidan, Zhang, Fei, Chen, Songyi, Luo, Peng, Chen, Xiehang, Ren, Yang, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Prescher, Clemens, Zuo, Xiaobing, Li, Tao, Wen, Jianguo, Wang, Wei-Hua, Sheng, Hongwei, Zeng, Qiaoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 16.01.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 147/143; 639/301/1023/218; 639/301/119/1002; 639/301/119/2795; Amorphous materials; Configurations; Crystal structure; Crystallization; Crystals; Humanities and Social Sciences; Laboratories; MATERIALS SCIENCE; Metallic glasses; multidisciplinary; Nearest-neighbor; Phase transitions; Pressure; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Shells; Symmetry; Synchrotron radiation; Thermal cycling; Tuning

Metallic glasses are expected to have quite tunable structures in their configuration space, without the strict constraints of a well-defined crystalline symmetry and large energy barriers separating different states in crystals. However, effectively modulating the structure of metallic glasses is r...