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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Structural study of supercooled liquid transition metals
1Department of Physics and the Center for Materials Innovation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
Abstract:
Local structural models for supercooled liquid transition metals (Ti, Ni, and Zr) are proposed based on a reverse Monte Carlo analysis of high-energy x-ray diffraction data taken from the electrostatically levitated liquids. The resulting structures are characterized by their bond angle distributions, Honeycutt and Andersen indices [J. Phys. Chem. 91, 4950 (1987)], and bond orientational order parameters. All analyses suggest that an icosahedral short-range order is present in these supercooled liquids, but it is distorted in liquid Ti. These results are in agreement with the observed evolution of the high-q shoulder on the second peak in the structure factor S(q) and with an earlier analysis based on a local cluster model.
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