Glass-forming ability correlated with the liquid-liquid transition in Pd42.5Ni42.5P15 alloy

Autor: Yao Yu, Gavin Vaughan, Enyi Chen, Si-Xu Peng, Beatrice Ruta, Marco Di Michiel, Shuai Wei, Haibin Yu, Lin Liu, Liang Peng
Přispěvatelé: State Key of Material Processing and Die and Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology [Wuhan] (HUST), Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics [HUST], European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Spectroscopies optiques des matériaux verres, amorphes et à nanoparticules (SOPRANO), Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne] (ILM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, RWTH Aachen University
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Scripta Materialia
Scripta Materialia, Elsevier, 2021, 193, pp.117-121. ⟨10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.10.042⟩
ISSN: 1359-6462
Popis: International audience; Alloy melts can solidify into metallic glasses if cooled fast enough to avoid crystallization. Glass-forming ability (GFA), a measure of the ease of vitrification, is vital for the fundamental understanding of glass formation, and is also crucial for the application of metallic glasses. Previous studies of GFA mainly focused on the undercooled liquid phase, while the influence of the evolution of the stable melts on GFA is rarely addressed. Here we show that the Pd42.5Ni42.5P15 glass-forming liquid, in which a first-order liquid-liquid transition (LLT) takes place at TLL = 1063 K high above its liquidus temperature, shows significantly different GFA when quenched from the temperature above or below TLL. Moreover, the pathway and kinetics of crystallization of the melt are strongly related to the kinetics of the LLT. Our work provides new insights into the vitrification process and the kinetics of crystallization, and contributes to designing more stable metallic glasses.
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