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Pressure effect on structure and properties of rapidly cooled Mg70Zn30 alloy

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A set of classic molecular dynamics simulations at a cooling rate of 0.1 K/ps have been performed to investigate the effect of pressure ranging from 0 to 4 GPa on the solidification of liquid Mg70Zn30 alloy, by means of the average atomic energy, the largest standard cluster analysis and 3D visualization. It is found that pressure plays an important role in both the glass transition and the structure of the final solid. Tg-P (Tg is the end temperature of the glass transition) is a monotonically increasing curve with the increase rate decreases significantly at P > 0.1 GPa. However, the structure parameters based on short-range order and icosahedrons are not monotonically dependent on pressure. Interestingly, the pressure dependence of the structure parameters based on topologically close-packed (TCP) structures is highly consistent with Tg-P. Therefore, TCP is an essential characteristic and plays an important role in glass transition. In addition, the pressure enhances the contribution of Mg atoms to the formation of Zn-rich TCP structures. These findings shed new light on understanding the pressure-structure relationship of metallic glasses.

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This study was funded by the financial support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers: 11764005, 51661005, U1612442, and 11747123), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant Numbers: 20181BAB216001 and GJJ180808), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant Numbers: 2018JJ3560 and 19C0176).

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    Lili Zhou, Fangzuo Li & Xiaolu Xie

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    Yunfei Mo

  3. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Zean Tian

  4. School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Rangsu Liu

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Conceptualization was performed by Lili Zhou, Zean Tian, Yunfei Mo and Rangsu Liu; data curation was performed by Lili Zhou; formal analysis was carried out by Lili Zhou, Yunfei Mo and Fangzuo Li; project administration was done by Lili Zhou, Zean Tian and Yunfei Mo; Zean Tian carried out supervision; writing of original draft was done by Lili Zhou; writing, review and editing were done by Lili Zhou, Zean Tian, Yunfei Mo and Xiaolu Xie.

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Zhou, L., Mo, Y., Tian, Z. et al. Pressure effect on structure and properties of rapidly cooled Mg70Zn30 alloy. J Mater Sci 56, 4420–4432 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05505-6

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