Advancing the mechanical performance of glasses: perspectives and challenges

L Wondraczek, E Bouchbinder, A Ehrlicher… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

Mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses

MM Trexler, NN Thadhani - Progress in Materials Science, 2010 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses, including their superior strength and
hardness, and excellent corrosion and wear resistance, combined with their general inability …

Towards ultrastrong glasses

L Wondraczek, JC Mauro, J Eckert, U Kühn, J Horbach… - 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The development of new glassy materials is key for addressing major global challenges in
energy, medicine, and advanced communications systems. For example, thin, flexible, and …

Accelerating the design of functional glasses through modeling

JC Mauro, A Tandia, KD Vargheese… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Functional glasses play a critical role in current and developing technologies. These
materials have traditionally been designed empirically through trial-and-error …

Mechanical behavior of metallic glasses: microscopic understanding of strength and ductility

M Chen - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The widespread enthusiasm for research on bulk metallic glasses is driven by both a
fundamental interest in the structure and properties of disordered materials and their unique …

Deep learning aided rational design of oxide glasses

R Ravinder, KH Sridhara, S Bishnoi, HS Grover… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Designing new glasses requires a priori knowledge of how the composition of a glass
dictates its properties such as stiffness, density, or processability. Thus, accelerated design …

Mechanical properties of metallic glasses

T Egami, T Iwashita, W Dmowski - Metals, 2013 - mdpi.com
Metallic glasses are known for their outstanding mechanical strength. However, the
microscopic mechanism of failure in metallic glasses is not well-understood. In this article we …

Predicting orientation-dependent plastic susceptibility from static structure in amorphous solids via deep learning

Z Fan, E Ma - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
It has been a long-standing materials science challenge to establish structure-property
relations in amorphous solids. Here we introduce a rotationally non-invariant local structure …

The elastic properties, elastic models and elastic perspectives of metallic glasses

WH Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Bulk metallic glass (BMG) provides plentiful precise knowledge of fundamental parameters
of elastic moduli, which offer a benchmark reference point for understanding and …

Bond switching in densified oxide glass enables record-high fracture toughness

T To, SS Sørensen, JFS Christensen… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Humans primarily interact with information technology through glass touch screens, and the
world would indeed be unrecognizable without glass. However, the low toughness of oxide …