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Structural origin of the pinpoint-composition effect on the glass-forming ability in the NiNb alloy system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2013

Liang Yang ,
Xiang-fei Meng  and
Gu-qing Guo
Liang Yang*
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Xiang-fei Meng
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Gu-qing Guo
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: yangliang@nuaa.edu.cn
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Abstract

Great research efforts to investigate the glass-forming ability (GFA) in alloys have been made, leading to an observation that a pinpoint composition produces the best glass-forming characteristics. The reason for this observation is still unknown, limiting the development of bulk metallic glasses (MGs) with a relatively large size. In this work, systematic experimental measurements coupled with calculations were performed to address this issue using the NiNb binary alloy system. It is found that the atomic-level packing efficiency and the clusters-level regularity parameters strongly contribute to their GFA. In particular, the best glass former found in a pinpoint composition possesses the local maximum of the atomic-packing efficiency and the highest degree of the cluster regularity. This work provides an understanding of GFA from atomic and cluster levels and will shed light on the development of more MGs with relatively large critical casting sizes.

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extended x-ray absorption fine structurex-ray diffractionmetallic glassMonte Carlo technique
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 28 , Issue 22 , 28 November 2013 , pp. 3170 - 3176
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2013 

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