A structural model for metallic glasses

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 697-702

  Miracle, Daniel B ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CLUSTER-PACKING STRUCTURE; GLASS SYSTEMS; MEDIUM-RANGE ORDER (MRO); VERTEX SHARING;

METALLIC GLASS;

GLASS; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GLASS; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 5544258257     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1219     Document Type: Article

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