Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Compositional dependence of the fragility in metallic glass forming liquids

  • Sebastian A. Kube,
  • Sungwoo Sohn,
  • Rodrigo Ojeda-Mota,
  • Theo Evers,
  • William Polsky,
  • Naijia Liu,
  • Kevin Ryan,
  • Sean Rinehart,
  • Yong Sun,
  • Jan Schroers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31314-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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In metallic liquids, the fragility is difficult to predict and measure. Here, the authors present the film inflation method, which reveals large fragility variations across Mg–Cu–Y, and introduce the crystallization complexity as additional contribution to glass forming ability.