‘Crystal Genes’ in Metallic Liquids and Glasses

We analyze the underlying structural order that transcends liquid, glass and crystalline states in metallic systems. A genetic algorithm is applied to search for the most common energetically favorable packing motifs in crystalline structures. These motifs are in turn compared to the observed packin...

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Autores principales: Sun, Yang, Zhang, Feng, Ye, Zhuo, Zhang, Yue, Fang, Xiaowei, Ding, Zejun, Wang, Cai-Zhuang, Mendelev, Mikhail I., Ott, Ryan T., Kramer, Matthew J., Ho, Kai-Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4814814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27030071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23734
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Sumario:We analyze the underlying structural order that transcends liquid, glass and crystalline states in metallic systems. A genetic algorithm is applied to search for the most common energetically favorable packing motifs in crystalline structures. These motifs are in turn compared to the observed packing motifs in the actual liquid or glass structures using a cluster-alignment method. Using this method, we have revealed the nature of the short-range order in Cu(64)Zr(36) glasses. More importantly, we identified a novel structural order in the Al(90)Sm(10) system. In addition, our approach brings new insight into understanding the origin of vitrification and describing mesoscopic order-disorder transitions in condensed matter systems.

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