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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
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Glassy behaviour of mechanically amorphised ZIF-62 isomorphs
Michael F Thorne1, Adam F Sapnik1, Lauren N McHugh1
1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0FS, UK. tdb35@cam.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) can be melt-quenched to form glasses. Here, we present an alternative route to glassy ZIFs via mechanically induced amorphisation. This approach allows various glassy ZIFs to be produced in under 30 minutes at room temperature, without the need for melt-quenching.

