Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Substantially enhanced plasticity of bulk metallic glasses by densifying local atomic packing

  • Yuan Wu,
  • Di Cao,
  • Yilin Yao,
  • Guosheng Zhang,
  • Jinyue Wang,
  • Leqing Liu,
  • Fengshou Li,
  • Huiyang Fan,
  • Xiongjun Liu,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Xianzhen Wang,
  • Huihui Zhu,
  • Suihe Jiang,
  • Paraskevas Kontis,
  • Dierk Raabe,
  • Baptiste Gault,
  • Zhaoping Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26858-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Common wisdom to improve ductility of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is to introduce local loose packing regions at the expense of strength. Here the authors enhance structural fluctuations of BMGs by introducing dense local packing regions, resulting in simultaneous increase of ductility and strength.