Owing to their unique mechanical and functional properties, both amorphous and
nanocrystalline alloys have attracted extensive research interest over the past decades …

Amorphous thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) have given rise to a widespread research
interest due to their technological promise for practical applications and scientific importance …

Mechanical robustness, electrical and chemical reliabilities of devices against large
deformations such as bending and stretching have become the key metrics for rapidly …

Low-cost and non-cytotoxic ternary Zr-Ti-Ag thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) were
synthesized by DC magnetron sputtering. Results revealed that Ag addition enhanced the …

Abstract Binary Zr–Cu thin-film alloys were prepared by non-reactive conventional dc and
impulse magnetron co-sputtering using two unbalanced magnetrons equipped with Zr and …

The application of traditional crystalline materials as structural materials cannot meet critical
design challenges due to low-temperature brittleness. To address this issue, this study …

Zr-based thin film metallic glasses appear as promising coatings for biomedical applications,
due to their microstructural and physicochemical properties. Materials used as medical …

In this study, ZrCu-based thin films were obtained using a PVD-cathodic arc technique,
aiming to improve the surface properties of 316L stainless steel and Ti6Al4V implant …

A combinatorial approach has served as a high-throughput strategy to identify compositional
windows with optimized desired properties. Here, ZrCuAg thin-film metallic glasses were …

Binary ZrCu nanocomposite amorphous films are synthetized by pulsed laser deposition
(PLD) under vacuum (2× 10− 3 Pa) and 10 Pa He pressure, leading to fully amorphous …