The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Rapid solidification as non-ergodic phenomenon

PK Galenko, D Jou - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid solidification is a relevant physical phenomenon in material sciences, whose
theoretical analysis requires going beyond the limits of local equilibrium statistical physics …

Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of an amorphous solid

Y Yang, J Zhou, F Zhu, Y Yuan, DJ Chang, DS Kim… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Amorphous solids such as glass, plastics and amorphous thin films are ubiquitous in our
daily life and have broad applications ranging from telecommunications to electronics and …

Formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching

L Zhong, J Wang, H Sheng, Z Zhang, SX Mao - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
It has long been conjectured that any metallic liquid can be vitrified into a glassy state
provided that the cooling rate is sufficiently high,,,. Experimentally, however, vitrification of …

Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure

Y Yuan, DS Kim, J Zhou, DJ Chang, F Zhu… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their
three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic …

Breaking the vitrification limitation of monatomic metals

X Tong, YE Zhang, BS Shang, HP Zhang, Z Li… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The question of whether all materials can solidify into the glassy form proposed by Turnbull
half a century ago remains unsolved. Some of the simplest systems of monatomic metals …

A machine learning approach for engineering bulk metallic glass alloys

L Ward, SC O'Keeffe, J Stevick, GR Jelbert, M Aykol… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are a unique class of materials that are gaining traction in a
wide variety of applications due to their attractive physical properties. One limitation to the …

A hierarchically correlated flow defect model for metallic glass: Universal understanding of stress relaxation and creep

Q Hao, GJ Lyu, E Pineda, JM Pelletier, YJ Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the structurally disordered arrangement of atoms and deviation from thermodynamic
equilibrium, the physical and mechanical properties of metallic glasses can vary with time …

Physical origin of glass formation from multicomponent systems

YC Hu, H Tanaka - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
The origin of glass formation is one of the most fundamental issues in glass science. The
glass-forming ability (GFA) of multicomponent systems, such as metallic glasses and phase …

Understanding of crystallization behaviors in laser 3D printing of bulk metallic glasses

D Ouyang, P Zhang, C Zhang, L Liu - Applied Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
In 3D printing of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) by selective laser melting (SLM), partial
crystallization normally occurs in heat-affected zones (HAZs), which significantly deteriorates …