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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
Systematic mapping of icosahedral short-range order in a melt-spun Zr36Cu64 metallic glass
A C Y Liu1, M J Neish2, G Stokol3
1School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia and Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
Abstract:
By analyzing the angular correlations in scanning electron nanodiffraction patterns from a melt-spun Zr(36)Cu(64) glass, the dominant local order was identified as icosahedral clusters. Mapping the extent of this icosahedral short-range order demonstrates that the medium-range order in this material is consistent with a face-sharing or interpenetrating configuration. These conclusions support results from atomistic modeling and a structural basis for the glass formability of this system.
