Atomic packing in Fe-based metallic glasses
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Abstract Atomic packing of three Fe-based metallic glasses (MGs) has been studied by X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption fine structure, combining with reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations. It is found that the addition of Y and Nb atoms to the binary Fe–B MG mainly stabilizes large high-coordinated polyhedra by substituting the center Fe atoms, promoting the formation of icosahedron-like clusters and their connectivity with high-coordinated polyhedra. Moreover, the heterogeneities in local structures are found to increase due to element segregations of Fe, Y and Nb atoms. The obtained results indicate that the large-sized Y and Nb atoms can frustrate the geometry of competing crystalline phases and improve the atomic packing efficiency, therefore leading to the enhanced glass forming ability.
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OpenAlex topics: Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys · Glass properties and applications · Theoretical and Computational Physics
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