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CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 56, Issue 36, Pages 3897-3901Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4833-0
Keywords
metallic glass; short and medium range order; icosahedral order; glass formation
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- Tsinghua University
- National Thousand Talents Program of China
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In traditional view, atomic packing is random in glasses made of metallic elements with non-directional interactions as the glass-forming liquid needs to be excited to remain in liquid state before being cooled sufficiently fast to a glass. Locally ordered packing however is possible if certain conditions are favorable, such as a strong bonding between elements, or low configuration energy of a cluster of atoms as suggested by Frank. In alloy systems made of different metallic elements, we show that Frank's criterion alone does not necessarily lead to certain specific local ordered packing or cluster formation such as icosahedral packing. In this context, we revisit the issue of atomic packing and cluster formation, and show that an alloy system with fairly random liquid configuration could be sufficient to produce a variety of noticeable locally ordered packing with low energy, albeit largely statistical in nature. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of the system parameters such as the atomic size, alloy concentration, and interaction potential in their collective contribution to local atomic packing.
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