Formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 7513, 2014, Pages 177-180

  Zhong, Li ^a   Wang, Jiangwei ^a   Sheng, Hongwei ^b,c   Zhang, Ze ^d   Mao, Scott X ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HIGH PRESSURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED RESEARCH   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COPPER; GLASS; GOLD; IRIDIUM; PALLADIUM; RHODIUM; SILVER; TANTALUM; VANADIUM;

COOLING; GLASS; LABORATORY METHOD;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HEATING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LIQUID; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LIQUID QUENCHING; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84906212792     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13617     Document Type: Article

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