Relaxation processes significantly influence the properties of glass materials. However,
understanding their specific origins is difficult; even more challenging is to forecast them …

The structural diversity of rare-earth and transition metal borides indicates that alkali-
transition metal borides (ATB) show tremendous promise in exhibiting a variety of crystal …

Abstract We developed a Finnis–Sinclair potential suitable for molecular dynamics (MD)
simulation of solidification of Al3Sm alloy. The MD simulation showed a layer-by-layer solid …

The correlation between structure and glass formability in glassy systems is a long-standing
puzzle. To solve this puzzle, many descriptors based on the short-range order (SRO) have …

Layered double hydroxides (LDH) demonstrate significant potential across a range of
applications, including as catalysts, delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals, environmental …

Recent experiments on devitrification of Al 90 Sm 10 amorphous alloys revealed an unusual
polymorphic transformation to a complex cubic crystal structure called the ε-Al 60 Sm 11 …

Aluminum rare-earth (Al-RE) metallic alloys and glasses with Al-rich compositions have
attracted much attention owing to their high strength-to-weight ratio and superior thermal …

The complex interplay between energetic and kinetic factors that governs the phase and
morphology selections can originate at the earliest stage of crystallization in the amorphous …

Phase selection and growth of materials far from equilibrium provides fertile ground for novel
phases and morphologies since a multitude of different pathways may be energetically …

A metastable ε-Al 60 Sm 11 phase appears during the initial devitrification of as-quenched
Al-10.2 at.% Sm glasses. The ε phase is nonstoichiometric in nature since Al occupation is …