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Icosahedral short-range order in deeply undercooled metallic melts
T Schenk1, D Holland-Moritz, V Simonet
1Institut für Raumsimulation, DLR, D-51170 Köln, Germany.
Physical Review Letters
|August 23, 2002
Abstract:
Experimental evidence of icosahedral short-range order in stable and deeply undercooled melts of pure metallic elements is obtained using the combination of electromagnetic levitation with neutron scattering. This icosahedral short-range order is shown to occur in the bulk metallic melt independently of the system investigated. It strongly increases with the degree of undercooling.