Fast coalescence of metallic glass nanoparticles

Yuan Tian; Wei Jiao; Pan Liu; Shuangxi Song; Zhen Lu; Akihiko Hirata; Mingwei Chen

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13054-z

Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Fast coalescence of metallic glass nanoparticles

Yuan Tian,
Wei Jiao,
Pan Liu,
Shuangxi Song,
Zhen Lu,
Akihiko Hirata,
Mingwei Chen

Affiliations

Yuan Tian: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Wei Jiao: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Pan Liu: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shuangxi Song: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhen Lu: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Akihiko Hirata: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Mingwei Chen: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13054-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The coarsening of amorphous metallic nanoparticles remains poorly understood. Here, the authors combine high resolution microscopy and atomistic simulations to show the disordered structure of amorphous nanoparticles makes them coarsen faster than crystalline ones.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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