Engineering medium-range order and polyamorphism in a nanostructured amorphous alloy

Lan, Si; Guo, Chunyu; Zhou, Wenzhao; Ren, Yang; Almer, Jon; Pei, Chaoqun; Hahn, Horst; Liu, Chain-Tsuan; Feng, Tao; Wang, Xun-Li; Gleiter, Herbert

doi:10.1038/s42005-019-0222-9

Engineering medium-range order and polyamorphism in a nanostructured amorphous alloy

Journal Article · Fri Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Communications Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-019-0222-9· OSTI ID:1774502

^[1]; Guo, Chunyu ^[2]; Zhou, Wenzhao ^[3]; Ren, Yang ^[4]; ^[4]; Pei, Chaoqun ^[2]; ^[5]; Liu, Chain-Tsuan ^[6]; Feng, Tao ^[2]; ^[7]; Gleiter, Herbert ^[5]

Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China); City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
City Univ. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China). Shenzhen Research Inst.
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China); Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong); City Univ. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China). Shenzhen Research Inst.

Like crystalline materials, the properties of amorphous materials can be tailored by tuning the local atomic-to-nanoscale structural configurations. Polyamorphism is evident by the coexistence of kinetically stabilized amorphous structures with tailorable short-to-medium-range orders, providing a viable means to engineer the degree of local order and heterogeneity. Here, we report experimental evidence of the coexistence of liquid-like and solid-like amorphous phases in a Ni82P18 amorphous alloy with enhanced thermal stability and plasticity prepared by pulsed electrodeposition. The two amorphous phases, of comparable volume fraction of ~50% each, have similar short-range order but are distinguished by packing at the medium-range length scale (>6 Å). Upon heating, a structure crossover at ~450 K was observed, where the liquid-like structure transforms to the solid-like structure, as evidenced by the enthalpy release and an anomalous contraction of atomic structure over the medium-range length scale, due to the metastable nature of the liquid-like structure.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; German Research Foundation (DFG); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province; Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1774502

Journal Information:: Communications Physics, Journal Name: Communications Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 2; ISSN 2399-3650

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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