Metallic glasses have received considerable attention in the fields of materials science and
condensed matter physics. The disordered structure of metallic glasses gives rise to unique …

Suppressing crystallization of a metallic melt results in a disordered solid, also known as a
metallic glass. One may conclude that a metallic glass is free of defined structural length …

Abstract “Self-sharpening”, a material maintaining its acute head shape during penetration,
is highly desirable in a wide range of engineering applications. However, it remains a great …

Strain localization into shear bands in metallic glasses is typically described as a
mechanism that occurs at the nano-scale, leaving behind a shear defect with a thickness of …

The prospective applications of metallic glasses are limited by their lack of ductility,
attributed to shear banding inducing catastrophic failure. A concise depiction of the local …

Plastic deformation of metallic glasses (MGs) has long been considered to be confined to
nanoscale shear bands, but recently an affected zone around the shear band was found …

Metallic glasses are structurally heterogeneous below a certain length scale. Here we
demonstrate how elastic heterogeneities change in response to a macroscopic cyclic, but …

Metallic glasses (MGs) possess remarkably high strength but often display only minimal
tensile ductility due to the formation of catastrophic shear bands. Purposely enhancing the …

Capturing a shear band in a metallic glass during its propagation experimentally is very
challenging. Shear bands are very narrow but extend rapidly over macroscopic distances …

Mean-field theory is extensively used in statistical physics, solid-state physics, and
biophysics to compress a large number of interacting multi-body problems into an effective …