Structural heterogeneities and mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

JC Qiao, Q Wang, JM Pelletier, H Kato… - Progress in Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the atomic structure of amorphous alloys, which lacks long-range translational
symmetry, may appear homogeneous at the macroscopic scale, their local dynamic and/or …

Fe-based bulk metallic glasses: Glass formation, fabrication, properties and applications

HX Li, ZC Lu, SL Wang, Y Wu, ZP Lu - Progress in materials science, 2019 - Elsevier
The invention of bulk metallic glasses has stimulated extensive interest, due to their possible
technological applications in a variety of industrial fields and their scientific importance in …

Understanding glass through differential scanning calorimetry

Q Zheng, Y Zhang, M Montazerian, O Gulbiten… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a powerful tool to address some of the most
challenging issues in glass science and technology, such as the nonequilibrium nature of …

Data-driven discovery of a universal indicator for metallic glass forming ability

MX Li, YT Sun, C Wang, LW Hu, S Sohn, J Schroers… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the importance of glass forming ability as a major alloy characteristic, it is poorly
understood and its quantification has been experimentally laborious and computationally …

Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses

YQ Cheng, E Ma - Progress in materials science, 2011 - Elsevier
The structure of metallic glasses (MGs) has been a long-standing mystery. On the one hand,
MGs are amorphous materials with no long-range structural order; on the other hand …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Five-fold symmetry as indicator of dynamic arrest in metallic glass-forming liquids

YC Hu, FX Li, MZ Li, HY Bai, WH Wang - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
With sufficient high cooling rates, a variety of liquids, including metallic melts, will cross a
glass transition temperature and solidify into glass accompanying a marked increase of the …

Full icosahedra dominate local order in Cu64Zr34 metallic glass and supercooled liquid

J Ding, YQ Cheng, E Ma - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Extensive molecular dynamics simulations were carried out to monitor the development of
icosahedral order in Cu 64 Zr 34 liquid and metallic glass (MG). This study illustrates that at …

Structural signature of plastic deformation in metallic glasses

HL Peng, MZ Li, WH Wang - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
The structure feature of a model CuZr metallic glass during deformation is investigated by
molecular dynamics simulations. A spatially heterogeneous irreversible rearrangement is …

Nanoscale Structure and Structural Relaxation in Bulk Metallic Glass

J Hwang, ZH Melgarejo, YE Kalay, I Kalay, MJ Kramer… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
Hybrid reverse Monte Carlo simulations of the structure of Zr 50 Cu 45 Al 5 bulk metallic
glass incorporating medium-range structure from fluctuation electron microscopy data and …