1. Substantially enhanced plasticity of bulk metallic glasses by densifying local atomic packing
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Dierk Raabe, Xianzhen Wang, Cao Di, Huihui Zhu, Xiongjun Liu, Guosheng Zhang, Fengshou Li, Leqing Liu, Huiyang Fan, Jinyue Wang, Yao Yilin, Baptiste Gault, Zhaoping Lu, Paraskevas Kontis, Suihe Jiang, Hui Wang, and Yuan Wu
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Toughness ,Multidisciplinary ,Materials science ,Amorphous metal ,Critical stress ,Science ,Doping ,Alloy ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Mechanical properties ,General Chemistry ,Metals and alloys ,Plasticity ,engineering.material ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Article ,Amorphous solid ,engineering ,Composite material ,Ductility - Abstract
Introducing regions of looser atomic packing in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) was reported to facilitate plastic deformation, rendering BMGs more ductile at room temperature. Here, we present a different alloy design approach, namely, doping the nonmetallic elements to form densely packed motifs. The enhanced structural fluctuations in Ti-, Zr- and Cu-based BMG systems leads to improved strength and renders these solutes’ atomic neighborhoods more prone to plastic deformation at an increased critical stress. As a result, we simultaneously increased the compressive plasticity (from ∼8% to unfractured), strength (from ∼1725 to 1925 MPa) and toughness (from 87 ± 10 to 165 ± 15 MPa√m), as exemplarily demonstrated for the Zr20Cu20Hf20Ti20Ni20 BMG. Our study advances the understanding of the atomic-scale origin of structure-property relationships in amorphous solids and provides a new strategy for ductilizing BMG without sacrificing strength., 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.
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- 2021