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Title: Universal aging characteristics of macroscopically and microscopically dissimilar metallic glasses

Abstract

Supercooled liquids and glasses, due to their intrinsically unstable nature, are known to relax continuously until an equilibrium state is reached. By exploring atomic relaxation, aging and microscopic structure of chemically similar but physically dissimilar metallic glasses, we find that neither the relaxation time nor aging correlate with the free volume or density of the glasses. Furthermore, atomic relaxation time in these metallic glasses does not depend on the microscopic structure of the systems. The activation energy for the diffusion process indicates a completely different microscopic mechanism governing the atomic transport process. Nevertheless, the age-dependent relaxation time surprisingly exhibits a universal time-waiting time-temperature superposition. In conclusion, our results provide a convincing proof of the universality in the aging of out-of-equilibrium materials.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. City Univ. of Hong Kong,, Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Physics
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  3. Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo (Japan). Research & Utilization Division
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); City University of Hong Kong
OSTI Identifier:
1466344
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1582803
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; 7004968; 2015B1066
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Acta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 155; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; aging; metallic glass; molecular dynamics simulation; reverse Monte Carlo analysis; x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Citation Formats

Wong, Kaikin, Krishnan, Rithin P., Dufresne, Eric M., Ohara, Koji, Sandy, Alec R., and Chathoth, Suresh M. Universal aging characteristics of macroscopically and microscopically dissimilar metallic glasses. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.059.
Wong, Kaikin, Krishnan, Rithin P., Dufresne, Eric M., Ohara, Koji, Sandy, Alec R., & Chathoth, Suresh M. Universal aging characteristics of macroscopically and microscopically dissimilar metallic glasses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.059
Wong, Kaikin, Krishnan, Rithin P., Dufresne, Eric M., Ohara, Koji, Sandy, Alec R., and Chathoth, Suresh M. Wed . "Universal aging characteristics of macroscopically and microscopically dissimilar metallic glasses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.059. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466344.
@article{osti_1466344,
title = {Universal aging characteristics of macroscopically and microscopically dissimilar metallic glasses},
author = {Wong, Kaikin and Krishnan, Rithin P. and Dufresne, Eric M. and Ohara, Koji and Sandy, Alec R. and Chathoth, Suresh M.},
abstractNote = {Supercooled liquids and glasses, due to their intrinsically unstable nature, are known to relax continuously until an equilibrium state is reached. By exploring atomic relaxation, aging and microscopic structure of chemically similar but physically dissimilar metallic glasses, we find that neither the relaxation time nor aging correlate with the free volume or density of the glasses. Furthermore, atomic relaxation time in these metallic glasses does not depend on the microscopic structure of the systems. The activation energy for the diffusion process indicates a completely different microscopic mechanism governing the atomic transport process. Nevertheless, the age-dependent relaxation time surprisingly exhibits a universal time-waiting time-temperature superposition. In conclusion, our results provide a convincing proof of the universality in the aging of out-of-equilibrium materials.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.059},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 155,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: The temperature dependence of intensity auto-correlation function of (a) Cu34Zr66, (b) Cu50Zr50 and (c) Cu64Zr36 measured at the static structure factor maximum ($Q$max) by XPCS. The lines are the best fits using the Eq. 2. (d) The relaxation times plotted as a function of temperature. (d) inset: themore » values of stretching exponent β as a function of temperature.« less

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