Soft spots and their structural signature in a metallic glass

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 14052-14056

  Ding, Jun ^a   Patinet, Sylvain ^a,b   Falk, Michael L ^a,c   Cheng, Yongqiang ^d   Ma, Evan ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b ESPCI   (France)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Liquid like regions; Shear transformation zones; Structure property relationship; Uncommon motifs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907587759     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412095111     Document Type: Article

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