Structural crossover in a supercooled metallic liquid and the link to a liquid-to-liquid phase transition
Abstract
Time-resolved synchrotron measurements were carried out to capture the structure evolution of an electrostatically levitated metallic-glass-forming liquid during free cooling. The experimental data shows a crossover in the liquid structure at ~1000 K, about 115 K below the melting temperature and 150 K above the crystallization temperature. The structure change is characterized by a dramatic growth in the extended-range order below the crossover temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations have identified that the growth of the extended-range order was due to an increased correlation between solute atoms. These results provide structural evidence for a liquid-to-liquid-phase-transition in the supercooled metallic liquid.
- Authors:
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- City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- Department of Physics and Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Washington University One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA
- Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1255301
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1254369
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 108; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Molecular dynamics; Atomic and molecular clusters; Viscous liquid; Nanocrystals; Glass transitions; Electrostatics; Classical statistical mechanics; Amorphous materials; Synchrotron X-ray diffraction; Phase transitions
Citation Formats
Lan, S., Blodgett, M., Kelton, K. F., Ma, J. L., Fan, J., and Wang, X. L. Structural crossover in a supercooled metallic liquid and the link to a liquid-to-liquid phase transition. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4952724.
Lan, S., Blodgett, M., Kelton, K. F., Ma, J. L., Fan, J., & Wang, X. L. Structural crossover in a supercooled metallic liquid and the link to a liquid-to-liquid phase transition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4952724
Lan, S., Blodgett, M., Kelton, K. F., Ma, J. L., Fan, J., and Wang, X. L. 2016.
"Structural crossover in a supercooled metallic liquid and the link to a liquid-to-liquid phase transition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4952724. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1255301.
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title = {Structural crossover in a supercooled metallic liquid and the link to a liquid-to-liquid phase transition},
author = {Lan, S. and Blodgett, M. and Kelton, K. F. and Ma, J. L. and Fan, J. and Wang, X. L.},
abstractNote = {Time-resolved synchrotron measurements were carried out to capture the structure evolution of an electrostatically levitated metallic-glass-forming liquid during free cooling. The experimental data shows a crossover in the liquid structure at ~1000 K, about 115 K below the melting temperature and 150 K above the crystallization temperature. The structure change is characterized by a dramatic growth in the extended-range order below the crossover temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations have identified that the growth of the extended-range order was due to an increased correlation between solute atoms. These results provide structural evidence for a liquid-to-liquid-phase-transition in the supercooled metallic liquid.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4952724},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1255301},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 21,
volume = 108,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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