Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Two-way tuning of structural order in metallic glasses

  • Hongbo Lou,
  • Zhidan Zeng,
  • Fei Zhang,
  • Songyi Chen,
  • Peng Luo,
  • Xiehang Chen,
  • Yang Ren,
  • Vitali B. Prakapenka,
  • Clemens Prescher,
  • Xiaobing Zuo,
  • Tao Li,
  • Jianguo Wen,
  • Wei-Hua Wang,
  • Hongwei Sheng,
  • Qiaoshi Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14129-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While metallic glasses are expected to have tunable structures, these have rarely been demonstrated. Here, the authors combine temperature and pressure to show a two-way structural tuning in rare earth-based metallic glasses beyond the nearest-neighbor atomic shells.