In-situ visualizing atomic structural evolution during crystallization in ternary Zr Cu Al bulk metallic glasses
Abstract
A well-designed experimental method has been presented to in-situ visualize the amorphous-to-crystalline phase transformation of two glass formers at the atomic length scale in the supercooled liquid region using a high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM). Analysis of the HVEM high-resolution images, supported by the in situ synchrotron diffraction, further confirms previous observations of distinctively different crystallization pathways in the two Zr-Cu-Al alloys. Moreover, the HVEM results illustrate that isolated distributed nanocrystals with mutual orientation easily grew up from the Zr56Cu36Al8, an average glass former, which follows a classical crystallization pathway; while density population poorly ordered atomic clusters with large misorientation suspended the growth in the Zr46Cu46Al8, a good glass former, which might follow an unusual crystallization pathway. In addition, in-situ synchrotron diffraction measurements confirm that the Zr56Cu36Al8 alloy finally crystallized into an extended structure, in contrast, the final crystalline product of Zr46Cu46Al8 alloy possesses a damped structure. Our study provides a detailed microscopic understanding of the crystallization behaviors in the supercooled liquids, showing that the density population nucleation site with large misorientation and the confined final crystalline structure contribute to the stability of Zr-Cu-Al supercooled liquids.
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- City Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Physics and Materials Science
- City Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Physics and Materials Science; Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, Nanjing (China). Herbert Gleiter Inst. of Nanoscience
- Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan). Quantum Beam System Engineering
- Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan). Center for Advanced Research of Energy and Materials
- Univ. of Science and Technology, Beijing (China). State Key Lab. for Advanced Metals and Materials
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- City Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Physics and Materials Science; City Univ. of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen (China)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (MOST)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1542629
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1636719
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Intermetallics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0966-9795
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Wei, Xiaoya, Lan, Si, Wu, Zhenduo, Ohnuma, Masato, Shibayama, Tamaki, Watanabe, Seiichi, Zhou, Jie, Lu, Zhaoping, Ren, Yang, and Wang, Xun-Li. In-situ visualizing atomic structural evolution during crystallization in ternary Zr Cu Al bulk metallic glasses. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.intermet.2018.10.016.
Wei, Xiaoya, Lan, Si, Wu, Zhenduo, Ohnuma, Masato, Shibayama, Tamaki, Watanabe, Seiichi, Zhou, Jie, Lu, Zhaoping, Ren, Yang, & Wang, Xun-Li. In-situ visualizing atomic structural evolution during crystallization in ternary Zr Cu Al bulk metallic glasses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2018.10.016
Wei, Xiaoya, Lan, Si, Wu, Zhenduo, Ohnuma, Masato, Shibayama, Tamaki, Watanabe, Seiichi, Zhou, Jie, Lu, Zhaoping, Ren, Yang, and Wang, Xun-Li. Thu .
"In-situ visualizing atomic structural evolution during crystallization in ternary Zr Cu Al bulk metallic glasses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2018.10.016. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1542629.
@article{osti_1542629,
title = {In-situ visualizing atomic structural evolution during crystallization in ternary Zr Cu Al bulk metallic glasses},
author = {Wei, Xiaoya and Lan, Si and Wu, Zhenduo and Ohnuma, Masato and Shibayama, Tamaki and Watanabe, Seiichi and Zhou, Jie and Lu, Zhaoping and Ren, Yang and Wang, Xun-Li},
abstractNote = {A well-designed experimental method has been presented to in-situ visualize the amorphous-to-crystalline phase transformation of two glass formers at the atomic length scale in the supercooled liquid region using a high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM). Analysis of the HVEM high-resolution images, supported by the in situ synchrotron diffraction, further confirms previous observations of distinctively different crystallization pathways in the two Zr-Cu-Al alloys. Moreover, the HVEM results illustrate that isolated distributed nanocrystals with mutual orientation easily grew up from the Zr56Cu36Al8, an average glass former, which follows a classical crystallization pathway; while density population poorly ordered atomic clusters with large misorientation suspended the growth in the Zr46Cu46Al8, a good glass former, which might follow an unusual crystallization pathway. In addition, in-situ synchrotron diffraction measurements confirm that the Zr56Cu36Al8 alloy finally crystallized into an extended structure, in contrast, the final crystalline product of Zr46Cu46Al8 alloy possesses a damped structure. Our study provides a detailed microscopic understanding of the crystallization behaviors in the supercooled liquids, showing that the density population nucleation site with large misorientation and the confined final crystalline structure contribute to the stability of Zr-Cu-Al supercooled liquids.},
doi = {10.1016/j.intermet.2018.10.016},
journal = {Intermetallics},
number = C,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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