Preferred clusters in metallic glasses

In this work, we present a feasible scheme based on framework of the sophisticated Voronoi tessellation method in order to evaluate what clusters should be preferred for building blocks in any given metallic glass, by analysing the fivefold-symmetry axes as well as the degree of structural regularity in various clusters. This scheme is well proved by a group of experiments and calculations, which may have broad implications for exploration of obtaining explicit and proper structural pictures, and understanding the structural origin of the unique properties and glass forming ability in these novel amorphous alloys.