Icosahedral medium-range order formed in Mg70Zn30 metallic glass: a larger-scale molecular dynamics simulation |
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Authors: | Hou Zhao-Yang Liu Rang-Su Tian Ze-An and Wang Jin-Guo |
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Institution: | College of Science, Xidian University, Xián 710071, China;School of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;School of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;College of Science, Xidian University, Xián 710071, China |
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Abstract: | A larger-scale Mg70Zn30 alloy system including 100000 atoms has been simulated by using the molecular dynamics method to investigate the icosahedral medium-range order (IMRO) formed in the Mg70Zn30 metallic glass. It is found that the simulated pair distribution function of Mg70Zn30 metallic glass is in good agreement with the experimental results. The glass transition temperature Tg is near 450 K under the cooling rate of 1×1012 K/s. The icosahedral local structures play a critical role in the formation of metallic glass, and they are the dominant local configurations in the Mg70Zn30 metallic glass. The IMRO in the Mg70Zn30 metallic glass is characterized by certain types of extended icosahedral clusters combined by intercross-sharing atoms in the form of chains or dendrites. The size distributions of these IMRO clusters present a magic number sequence of 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39,..., and the magic clusters can be classified into three types according to their compactness. The IMRO clusters grow rapidly in a low-dimensional way with cooling, but this growth is limited near Tg. |
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Keywords: | molecular dynamics simulation medium-range order Mg70Zn30 metallic glass |
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