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  • Title: Crystal genes in a marginal glass-forming system of Ni50Zr50.
    Author: Wen TQ, Tang L, Sun Y, Ho KM, Wang CZ, Wang N.
    Journal: Phys Chem Chem Phys; 2017 Nov 22; 19(45):30429-30438. PubMed ID: 29104995.
    Abstract:
    The marginal glass-forming ability (GFA) of a binary Ni-Zr system is an issue to be explained considering numerous bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) found in a Cu-Zr system. Using molecular dynamics, the structures and dynamics of Ni50Zr50 metallic liquid and glass are investigated at the atomistic level. To achieve a well-relaxed glassy sample, a sub-Tg annealing method is applied and the final sample is closer to the experiments than the models prepared by continuous cooling. With the state-of-the-art structural analysis tools such as cluster alignment and pair-wise alignment methods, two glass-forming motifs with some mixed traits of a metastable B2 crystalline phase and a crystalline Ni-centered B33 motif are found to be dominant in the undercooled liquid and glass samples. A new chemical order characterization on each short-range order (SRO) structure is accomplished based on the cluster alignment method. The significant amount of the crystalline motif and the few icosahedra in the glassy sample deteriorate the GFA.
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