Understanding glass through differential scanning calorimetry

Q Zheng, Y Zhang, M Montazerian, O Gulbiten… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a powerful tool to address some of the most
challenging issues in glass science and technology, such as the nonequilibrium nature of …

Dynamic relaxations and relaxation-property relationships in metallic glasses

WH Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

Ultrastable metallic glass by room temperature aging

Y Zhao, B Shang, B Zhang, X Tong, H Ke, H Bai… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Glasses have markedly different stability around their glass transition temperature (T g), and
metallic glasses (MGs) are conventionally regarded as metastable compared to other …

Perspective: Highly stable vapor-deposited glasses

MD Ediger - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This article describes recent progress in understanding highly stable glasses prepared by
physical vapor deposition and provides perspective on further research directions for the …

Designing advanced amorphous/nanocrystalline alloys by controlling the energy state

JQ Wang, LJ Song, JT Huo, M Gao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Amorphous alloys, also known as metallic glasses, exhibit many advanced mechanical,
physical, and chemical properties. Owing to the nonequilibrium nature, their energy states …

Structure and entropy control of polyamorphous transition in high-entropy metallic glasses

Q Yang, XM Yang, T Zhang, XW Liu, HB Yu - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, a putative phase transition has been discovered in metallic glasses that could lead
to two distinct amorphous states. This phenomenon, known as polyamorphism, has …

Existence of multiple critical cooling rates which generate different types of monolithic metallic glass

JEK Schawe, JF Löffler - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Via fast differential scanning calorimetry using an Au-based glass as an example, we show
that metallic glasses should be classified into two types of amorphous/monolithic glass. The …

Physical aging and vitrification in polymers and other glasses: Complex behavior and size effects

D Cangialosi - Journal of Polymer Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigmatic view on the transformation of a supercooled liquid into a glass, so‐called
vitrification or glass transition, and the subsequent time evolution of the non‐equilibrium …

Detecting the exponential relaxation spectrum in glasses by high-precision nanocalorimetry

L Song, Y Gao, P Zou, W Xu, M Gao, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Nonexponential relaxations are universal characteristics for glassy materials. There is a well-
known hypothesis that nonexponential relaxation peaks are composed of a series of …

Switching between Crystallization from the Glassy and the Undercooled Liquid Phase in Phase Change Material Ge2Sb2Te5

J Pries, S Wei, M Wuttig, P Lucas - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Controlling crystallization kinetics is key to overcome the temperature–time dilemma in
phase change materials employed for data storage. While the amorphous phase must be …