Nature Communications (May 2021)

In situ correlation between metastable phase-transformation mechanism and kinetics in a metallic glass

  • Jiri Orava,
  • Shanoob Balachandran,
  • Xiaoliang Han,
  • Olga Shuleshova,
  • Ebrahim Nurouzi,
  • Ivan Soldatov,
  • Steffen Oswald,
  • Olof Gutowski,
  • Oleh Ivashko,
  • Ann-Christin Dippel,
  • Martin v. Zimmermann,
  • Yurii P. Ivanov,
  • A. Lindsay Greer,
  • Dierk Raabe,
  • Michael Herbig,
  • Ivan Kaban

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23028-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The competition between the formation of different phases and their kinetics need to be clearly understood to make materials with on-demand and multifaceted properties. Here, the authors reveal, by a combination of complementary in situ techniques, the mechanism of a Cu-Zr-Al metallic glass’s high propensity for metastable phase formation, which is partially through a kinetic mechanism of Al partitioning.