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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay1454
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- FEDER-UE [PGC2018-094548-B-I00]
- Basque Government [IT-1175-19]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1721/2-2, GA 1721/3-1]
- German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF/IGF) [17716N]
- CNRS [PICS 278566]
- MICINN-Spain [PGC2018-094548-B-I00]
- Heraeus Holding GmbH for the gold, palladium, and silver supply
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Understanding how glasses form, the so-called vitrification, remains a major challenge in materials science. Here, we study vitrification kinetics, in terms of the limiting fictive temperature, and atomic mobility related to the arelaxation of an Au-based bulk metallic glass former by fast scanning calorimetry. We show that the time scale of the alpha-relaxation exhibits super-Arrhenius temperature dependence typical of fragile liquids. In contrast, vitrification kinetics displays milder temperature dependence at moderate undercooling, and thereby, vitrification takes place at temperatures lower than those associated to the alpha-relaxation. This finding challenges the paradigmatic view based on a one-to-one correlation between vitrification, leading to the glass transition, and the alpha-relaxation. We provide arguments that at moderate to deep undercooling, other atomic motions, which are not involved in the alpha-relaxation and that originate from the heterogeneous dynamics in metallic glasses, contribute to vitrification. Implications from the viewpoint of glasses fundamental properties are discussed.
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