Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Quantifying the origin of metallic glass formation

  • W. L. Johnson,
  • J. H. Na,
  • M. D. Demetriou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10313
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The crystal formation waiting time of a homogeneous supercooled liquid exhibits a pronounced minimum depending on temperature, and this minimum is a measure of glass forming ability. Here, the authors propose an expression for this minimum for all metallic glasses that depends only on two fitting parameters.