Hidden amorphous phase and reentrant supercooled liquid in Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses
Abstract
An anomaly in differential scanning calorimetry has been reported in a number of metallic glass materials in which a broad exothermal peak was observed between the glass and crystallization temperatures. The mystery surrounding this calorimetric anomaly is epitomized by four decades long studies of Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses, arguably the best glass-forming alloys. Here we show, using a suite of in-situ experimental techniques, that Pd-Ni-P alloys have a hidden amorphous phase in the supercooled liquid region. The anomalous exothermal peak is the consequence of a polyamorphous phase transition between two supercooled liquids, involving a change in the packing of atomic clusters over medium-range length scales as large as 18 Å. With further temperature increase, the alloy reenters the supercooled liquid phase which forms the room-temperature glass phase upon quenching. Finally, the outcome of this study raises a possibility to manipulate the structure and hence the stability of metallic glasses through heat-treatment.
- Authors:
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- Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, Nanjing (China); City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), Kirrawee, NSW (Australia)
- Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan)
- City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China); City Univ. of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Scientific User Facilities Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1372661
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; glasses; phase transitions and critical phenomena
Citation Formats
Lan, S., Ren, Y., Wei, X. Y., Wang, B., Gilbert, E. P., Shibayama, T., Watanabe, S., Ohnuma, M., and Wang, X. -L. Hidden amorphous phase and reentrant supercooled liquid in Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms14679.
Lan, S., Ren, Y., Wei, X. Y., Wang, B., Gilbert, E. P., Shibayama, T., Watanabe, S., Ohnuma, M., & Wang, X. -L. Hidden amorphous phase and reentrant supercooled liquid in Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14679
Lan, S., Ren, Y., Wei, X. Y., Wang, B., Gilbert, E. P., Shibayama, T., Watanabe, S., Ohnuma, M., and Wang, X. -L. Fri .
"Hidden amorphous phase and reentrant supercooled liquid in Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14679. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1372661.
@article{osti_1372661,
title = {Hidden amorphous phase and reentrant supercooled liquid in Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses},
author = {Lan, S. and Ren, Y. and Wei, X. Y. and Wang, B. and Gilbert, E. P. and Shibayama, T. and Watanabe, S. and Ohnuma, M. and Wang, X. -L.},
abstractNote = {An anomaly in differential scanning calorimetry has been reported in a number of metallic glass materials in which a broad exothermal peak was observed between the glass and crystallization temperatures. The mystery surrounding this calorimetric anomaly is epitomized by four decades long studies of Pd-Ni-P metallic glasses, arguably the best glass-forming alloys. Here we show, using a suite of in-situ experimental techniques, that Pd-Ni-P alloys have a hidden amorphous phase in the supercooled liquid region. The anomalous exothermal peak is the consequence of a polyamorphous phase transition between two supercooled liquids, involving a change in the packing of atomic clusters over medium-range length scales as large as 18 Å. With further temperature increase, the alloy reenters the supercooled liquid phase which forms the room-temperature glass phase upon quenching. Finally, the outcome of this study raises a possibility to manipulate the structure and hence the stability of metallic glasses through heat-treatment.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms14679},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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