Delocalized Plastic Flow in Proton-Irradiated Monolithic Metallic Glasses.

ABSTRACT: Creating new materials with novel properties through structural modification is the Holy Grail of materials science. The range of targetable structures for amplification of mechanical properties in metallic glasses would include types of atomic short range orders at the smallest scale through compositions or morphologies of phases in composites. Even though the usefulness of the latter approach has been successfully demonstrated in the past decades, the feasibility of the former has been incompletely proved with only marginal property improvements reported within experimentally-accessible atomic-level structural changes. Here, we report the significant enhancement of deformability in Zr-based monolithic metallic glass only through the atomic disordering by proton irradiation without alteri

SUBMITTER: Heo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4796856 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature