Rapid Chemical Ordering in Supercooled Liquid Cu46Zr54

Wessels, Victor; Gangopadhyay, Anup; Sahu, K. K.; Hyers, R. W.; Canepari, S. M.; Rogers, J. R.; Kramer, Matthew J.; Goldman, A. I.; Robinson, D.; Lee, Jae W.; Morris, James R.; Kelton, K. F.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094116

Title: Rapid Chemical Ordering in Supercooled Liquid Cu46Zr54

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094116· OSTI ID:1009480

Wessels, Victor ^[1]; Gangopadhyay, Anup ^[2]; Sahu, K. K. ^[2]; Hyers, R. W. ^[3]; Canepari, S. M. ^[3]; Rogers, J. R. ^[4]; Kramer, Matthew J. ^[5]; Goldman, A. I. ^[6]; Robinson, D. ^[6]; Lee, Jae W. ^[7];

^[7]; Kelton, K. F. ^[2]

ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Washington University, St. Louis
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Ames Laboratory
Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
ORNL

Evidence for abrupt chemical ordering in a supercooled Cu46Zr54 liquid, obtained from high energy x-ray diffraction in a containerless processing environment, is presented. Relatively sudden changes were observed in the topological and chemical short-range order near 850oC, a temperature significantly below the liquidus and above the glass transition temperatures. A peak in the specific heat was observed with supercooling, with an onset near 850oC, the same temperature as the onset of chemical ordering, and a maximum near 700oC, consistent with the prediction of a molecular dynamics calculation using embedded atom potentials. The dominant short-range order below 850oC is incompatible with that of the primary crystallizing phases. This, and the possible development of strongly bonded, chemically ordered clustersmay explain unlikely bulk metallic glass formation in Cu-Zr and other binary alloys.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1009480

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 9; ISSN 1098-0121

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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