Computational modeling sheds light on structural evolution in metallic glasses and supercooled liquids

J Ding, E Ma - npj Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
This article presents an overview of three challenging issues that are currently being
debated in the community researching on the evolution of amorphous structures in metallic …

Toward atomic-scale understanding of structure-dynamics-properties relations for metallic glasses

ZY Zhou, Q Yang, HB Yu - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Disorder and amorphous systems constitute a large body of modern scientific and
technological research, where metallic glasses represent a simple realistic model material …

Second-nearest-neighbor correlations from connection of atomic packing motifs in metallic glasses and liquids

J Ding, E Ma, M Asta, RO Ritchie - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we have studied the atomic correlations
characterizing the second peak in the radial distribution function (RDF) of metallic glasses …

Structural changes during a liquid-liquid transition in the deeply undercooled bulk metallic glass forming melt

M Stolpe, I Jonas, S Wei, Z Evenson, W Hembree… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Using high energy synchrotron x-ray radiation combined with electrostatic levitation, in situ
structural analysis of a bulk metallic glass forming liquid is performed from above the …

Temperature-dependent structure evolution in liquid gallium

LH Xiong, XD Wang, Q Yu, H Zhang, F Zhang, Y Sun… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Temperature-dependent atomistic structure evolution of liquid gallium (Ga) has been
investigated by using in situ high energy X-ray diffraction experiment and ab initio molecular …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on metallic liquids and glasses

KF Kelton - Journal of Applied Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Metallic glasses have the potential to become transformative materials, but this is hindered
by the lack of ability to accurately predict which metallic alloys will form good glasses …

Structural evolution during fragile-to-strong transition in CuZr (Al) glass-forming liquids

C Zhou, L Hu, Q Sun, H Zheng, C Zhang… - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work, we show experimental evidence for the dynamic fragile-to-strong (FS)
transition in a series of CuZr (Al) glass-forming liquids (GFLs). A detailed analysis of the …

Investigating the High-Temperature Water/MgCl2 Interface through Ambient Pressure Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

F Tavani, M Busato, D Veclani, L Braglia… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Magnesium chloride is a prototypical deliquescent material whose surface properties,
although central for Ziegler–Natta cataysis, have so far remained elusive to experimental …

Determination of accurate, mean bond lengths from radial distribution functions

SV Sukhomlinov, MH Müser - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The mean bond length d between a central atom and its nearest neighbors can be estimated
from the position of the first peak in the radial distribution function g (r). However, as we …

Linking structure to fragility in bulk metallic glass-forming liquids

S Wei, M Stolpe, O Gross, Z Evenson, I Gallino… - Applied physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Using in-situ synchrotron X-ray scattering, we show that the structural evolution of various
bulk metallic glass-forming liquids can be quantitatively connected to their viscosity behavior …