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Crystalline alloys often fall short in providing certain key properties desired for biomedical applications. But by using metallic glasses instead, problems such as hydrogen evolution can be dramatically reduced in biodegradable magnesium alloys.

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Figure 1: The composition range (yellow area) over which Mg–Zn–Ca alloys can be produced in the form of bulk metallic glasses by means of copper-mould casting (Y. Y. Zhao and J. Xu, unpublished results).

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  1. Evan Ma is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA ema@jhu.edu,

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  2. Jian Xu is at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China. jianxu@imr.ac.cn,

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Ma, E., Xu, J. The glass window of opportunities. Nature Mater 8, 855–857 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2550

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