Glass formation and local structure evolution in rapidly cooled PdNi alloy melt under high pressure

Using molecular-dynamics simulation, investigations of the local structure under high pressure and the glass formation in the PdNi alloy melt under high pressure are performed. The critical cooling rates for glass formation are reduced apparently with pressure. With increasing of pressure, a more compacted local structure with more ideal icosahedra than defected icosahedra is obtained, which may be one of the main factors for the contribution of the high pressure to the glass formation.     

Pressure effect on the structural transition of liquid Au

We present a molecular dynamics simulation within the framework of empirical tight-binding potential on the liquid structure of Au under different pressures during the rapid cooling process. The pair correlation function (PCF) and the pair analysis (PA) technique are used to reveal the structural characteristics of liquid Au under normal and high pressures. The split of the second peak of g(r) is associated with the glass transition at the cooling rate of 2.06×10¹³ K/s under different pressures. The nearest distance is shortened under high pressures. High-pressure is in favor of FCC-type and BCC-type atomic clusters. The number of icosahedral structures increases in the high temperature region as pressure increase, while high-pressure is not preferable for icosahedra at low temperature. With the increase of the pressure, the possibility that the system forms crystalline structure is enhanced. The influence of a higher pressure on the microstructure of liquid metal is much clearer than that of a lower pressure.     

判定金属玻璃微观结构中的二十面体类团簇

基于Voronoi几何分形法, 分析了理想二十面体团簇和ZrCu二元金属玻璃中各种团簇的结构特点, 提出了一种判定金属玻璃原子结构中二十面体类团簇的方法. 并选取三个ZrCu 非晶成分作为研究对象, 基于Voronoi团簇, 利用该方法提取了各种构型团簇, 证实其中四种构型团簇的基本几何结构与理想二十面体相似, 并具有同样近似于理想二十面体的高致密度、高规则度和高五次对称性, 因此可称之为二十面体类团簇. 此类二十面体类团簇可作为金属玻璃的主要结构单元, 普遍存在于非晶结构中; 二十面体类团簇及其连接能包含几乎所有的原子, 从而形成非晶结构. 研究结果提供了一种新的团簇判定方法, 有助于从微观结构层面分析合金中的非晶形成机理.     

The structure of MgO-SiO2 glasses at elevated pressure

The magnesium silicate system is an important geophysical analogue and neutron diffraction data from glasses formed in this system may also provide an initial framework for understanding the structure-dependent properties of related liquids that are important during planetary formation. Neutron diffraction data collected in situ for a single composition (38 mol% SiO(2)) magnesium silicate glass sample shows local changes in structure as pressure is increased from ambient conditions to 8.6 GPa at ambient temperature. A method for obtaining the fully corrected, total structure factor, S(Q), has been developed that allows accurate structural characterization as this weakly scattering glass sample is compressed. The measured S(Q) data indicate changes in chemical ordering with pressure and the real-space transforms show an increase in Mg-O coordination number and a distortion of the local environment around magnesium ions. We have used reverse Monte Carlo methods to compare the high pressure and ambient pressure structures and also compare the high pressure form with a more silica-poor glass (Mg(2)SiO(4)) that represents the approach to a more dense, void-free and topologically ordered structure. The Mg-O coordination number increases with pressure and we also find that the degree of continuous connectivity of Si-O bonds increases via a collapse of interstices.     

Molecular dynamics computation of clusters in liquid Fe–Al alloy

By means of constant pressure molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique, a series of simulations of the Fe₅₀Al₅₀ alloy have been carried out. The atoms interact via semi-empirical n-body noncentral potential. The pair correlation functions and the pair analysis technique is applied to reveal the cluster evolution in the process of quick solidification. By using the bond orientation order parameters, we have measured both local and extended orientation symmetries for computer-generated models of dense liquid and glass. A lot of polyhedra in liquid system, for example, icosahedra, are also obtained. In order to test the reliance of the computation results, corresponding X-ray diffraction experiments have been performed on the material.     

Structural organization of icosahedral coordination polyhedra in a molecular dynamics model of the Ni60Ag40 metallic glass

Features of the formation of a percolation cluster structure composed of interpenetrating and contacting icosahedra during the glass transition in an amorphous Ni₆₀Ag₄₀ alloy have been studied using the molecular-dynamics method and statistical geometric analysis. Data on the morphology of clusters composed entirely of the interpenetrating icosahedra and on the character of their conjugation in the percolation cluster are presented.     

HL-2M 装置环向场线圈匝间绝缘工艺研究

HL-2M tokamak adopts the demountable toroidal field coils (TFCs) structure in order to assemble the vacuum vessel chamber and poloidal field coils (PFCs) integrally. TFCs are subjected to high shear force, which require high electrical performance and adhesive strength between the inter turn insulation and the copper plate. Baking and curing impregnated glass cloth and epoxy glass cloth under different pressure, then adhesive properties have been researched by shear tests. The results show that there are some differences in the adhesive properties between the turn to turn insulation and the copper plate under different structural combinations and different pressures. Appropriate structural combination and pressure of hot baking and curing were selected for TFCs.     

利用超声相干技术在室温和高压下研究几种不同性能的玻璃

 综合使用超声相干技术几种不同的测量方法，分别研究两类三种不同性能的玻璃材料，测量它们的声速和衰减在室温及高压条件下的变化规律。结果表明：两类玻璃的声速和衰减以及由此而得到的弹性常数存在较大差异。两种硅玻璃在高压下，声速随压力变化的规律相似，压力升高时，纵波速度随之单调增加，横波速度线性减少，纵波衰减也随压力升高呈增加趋势。不同的是：两种玻璃横波衰减随压力的变化规律完全相反，水白玻璃的衰减增加，窗口玻璃的减小。上述几种方法的测量结果基本一致，且在相应的压力范围内与布里渊散射的实验结果基本吻合。     

液态Ni原子团簇演变的计算机模拟

采用常温常压分子动力学模拟技术,模拟了液态Ni中原子团簇在快速凝固条件下的演变过程,模型采用TB作用势.采用偶分布函数、键对和多面体等结构参数来描述快速凝固条件下团簇种类和数量的变化,并将团簇结构可视化.在2 000 K下,液态Ni中团簇数量较少,由一定数量的1551、1441及1661键对所形成的缺陷二十面体构成;在快速冷却条件下,团簇的数量随温度的降低不断增加,且出现由12个1551键型所形成的完整二十面体团簇,体系最终形成了由二十面体和缺陷二十面体团簇网络所组成的非晶结构.     

压力对非晶铜形成影响的分子动力学模拟

用分子动力学模拟法研究了Cu熔体在冷却过程中形成非晶的能力. 结果表明，压力使Cu熔体在冷却过程中形成晶体的倾向增加. 高压下冷却形成的Cu非晶中含有较多的晶态原子团，有序度较高.     

Geometric structure of Bergman clusters related to bulk amorphous alloys and quasicrystals

The fcc Zr₂Ni- and MgCu₂-type phases, being primary crystalline products of certain amorphous alloys with high glass-forming ability, should provide local structural information about the related amorphous alloys. The present paper gives a detailed analysis of the common structural features of these two fcc phases. They are both built from a similar building block consisting of tetrahedrally packed icosahedra. They also have shelled local structures similar to the first two shells of the Bergman-type clusters found in many icosahedral quasicrystals. Therefore the Bergman-type clusters probably play an important role in amorphous phase formation. Because of topological close packing inside dual-intergrown icosahedra, characteristic of Bergman clusters, the atomic radius ratios of the first- and second-shell atoms with respect to the central atom are nearly equal and fall in the range 1.1–1.2.     

Medium-range structural order in liquid Ni20Al80 alloy: Experimental and molecular dynamics studies

In this Letter, structural properties of liquid Ni₂₀Al₈₀ have been studied through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and results agree well with X-ray experiments. The prepeak in the structure factor manifests the existence of medium-range structural order (MRSO) in liquid Ni₂₀Al₈₀. Analyses in MRSO reveal the dominance of ideal icosahedra and defective icosahedra which, furthermore, form clusters and share common atoms.     

Transition of iron ions from high-spin to low-spin state and pressure-induced insulator-metal transition in hematite Fe<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subscript>

For the analysis of the electron structure of hematite under pressure, methods of the generalized transition state and local electron density approximation combined with the dynamical mean-field theory have been used. The transition of iron ions from the high-spin to low-spin state and the insulator-metal transition observed in Fe₂O₃ at high pressures have been considered. It is shown that in the low-symmetry crystal structure of Fe₂O₃ experimentally revealed at high pressures a low-spin metallic state is also preferable. The theoretical results obtained agree well with experimental data.     

X-Ray Diffraction Investigation of Oleic Acid under High Pressure

Pressure has a specific influence on the light scattering in those liquids in which all molecules have an unsaturated double bond C=C. Strong changes of intensity of transmitted and scattered light in oleic acid were observed during its transition to the high-pressure phase. In this paper, local order in liquid of oleic acid has been studied using the X-ray diffraction photographic Laue method. Experiments were run at room temperature under atmospheric pressure as well as under pressures up to 0.25 GPa. At pressures above 0.2 GPa a strong increase of ordering of molecules, similar to a smectic liquid crystal phase, has been observed. This confirms results obtained previously by studies of light scattering under high pressure.     

高压下限域富勒烯分子体系构筑的新结构

探索新的碳结构是物理、材料等学科关注的热点课题. 富勒烯分子可看成是一种零维碳结构，其独特的结构和优异的性质为构筑新碳结构提供了理想的构筑单元. 本文介绍了利用限域与高压相结合的方法，在富勒烯限域体系研究中取得的进展，包括溶剂化富勒烯、富勒烯填充单壁碳纳米管（Peapod）限域体系的高压结构转变，总结了溶剂分子等对限域富勒烯高压结构相变与新结构形成的影响. 结果对新型碳结构的设计与构筑提供了新的思路与有益参考.     

In situ Brillouin spectroscopy of a pressure-induced apparent second-order transition in a silicate glass

Brillouin scattering measurements of a silicate glass, carried out at high pressures in the diamond anvil cell, show a dramatic increase in the pressure dependence of longitudinal velocity, and a discontinuity in the compressibility of the glass at about 6 GPa. While a first-order phase transition has been documented under pressure within amorphous ice, we demonstrate that an apparent second-order transition to a new, structurally distinct amorphous phase can occur via the abrupt onset of a new compressional mechanism, which may be triggered by a shift in polymerization of the glass or an onset of a change in coordination of silicon, within pressurized amorphous silicates.     

铝在校正高压下物质弹性波速测量上的应用

 自从在紧装式六面顶高压装置上建立了高温超高压下弹性波速的测量方法之后，已经获得了大量的有关岩石矿物的波速数据，利用这些波速数据解决了许多地质问题。然而，其高压弹性波速数据的精度没有解决，一直无法校正上、下顶砧的真正走时。根据弹性理论和标准物质铝的有关弹性参数，计算出铝的波速与压力的关系，然后，根据铝的波速与压力的关系推导出上、下顶砧的实际走时，校正后测量的较低压力下铁的波速与前人的资料吻合很好，并且铁的波速与压力也具有较好的非线性关系。因而，今后可以根据标准物质铝和铁来校正上、下顶砧的走时，从而获得物质在高压下更加精确的波速数据。     

二十面体团簇的遗传:一个与快凝Cu56Zr44合金玻璃形成能力有关的动力学参数

采用分子动力学方法模拟研究了液态Cu₅₆Zr₄₄合金在不同冷速γ与压力P下的快速凝固过程, 并通过基于Honeycutt-Andersen键型指数的扩展团簇类型指数法对其微结构演变特性进行了分析. 结果表明: 快凝玻璃合金的局域原子组态主要是(12 12/1551)规则二十面体、以及 (12 8/1551 2/1541 2/1431)与(12 2/1441 8/1551 2/1661) 缺陷二十面体. 通过原子轨迹的逆向跟踪分析发现: 从过冷液体中遗传下来的二十面体对快凝合金的玻璃形成能力(GFA)具有重要影响, 不仅其可遗传分数F_i =N_{300 K←Tg}ⁱ/N_Tg 与GFA密切相关, 而且其遗传起始温度(T_onset)与合金约化玻璃转变温度T_rg = T_g/T_m也存在很好的对应关系.     

静高压下Al80Mn14Si6合金准晶相形成的研究

 本文首次研究了Al₈₀Mn₁₄Si₆合金在静高压下准晶相得形成。利用静高压熔态淬火方法，在压力2.8和3.1 GPa下得到淬火的Al-Mn-Si样品。电子和X射线衍射实验表明，高压淬火样品中含有准晶二十面体相和非晶相。X射线衍射实验还表明，高压淬火样品经350 ℃退火一小时基本上没有发生变化；而经过500 ℃退火一小时后，准晶相晶化为α-Al₇₃Si₁₀Mn₁₇相。另外，电子衍射实验表明，高压淬火后样品中还存在其它中间亚稳相。本文还讨论了静高压熔态淬火方法的适用性。     

Quadrupolar glass state in para-hydrogen and ortho-deuterium under pressure

The main features of the possible quadrupolar glass state in ortho-deuterium and para-hydrogen under high pressure are predicted and considered in replica-symmetric approximation in analogy with glassy behavior of diluted ortho-hydrogen at low pressures. The quadrupolar model with J=2 is suggested. The orientational order and glass regime grow continuously on cooling, as is the case with ortho-para hydrogen mixtures at zero pressure.