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Tailoring the mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses via cooling from the supercooled liquid region

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Structural rejuvenation is vital and attractive for modulating the energetic state and structural heterogeneity of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). In this paper, we show that cooling a BMG from a supercooled liquid region at laboratory rates can reverse the relaxation enthalpy lost during the preceding structural relaxation. Increasing the cooling rate is beneficial for enhancing atomic mobility and dynamic mechanical relaxation intensity. Therefore, this rejuvenation methodology promotes tailoring the mechanical properties of BMGs and provides a comprehensive understanding of the rejuvenation mechanism.

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  1. School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    LangTing Zhang, YaJuan Duan & JiChao Qiao

  2. Department of Physics, Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Technology, Institute of Energy Technologies, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 08019, Spain

    YaJuan Duan

  3. State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    YunJiang Wang

  4. School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    YunJiang Wang

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China

    Yong Yang

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China

    Yong Yang

  7. Innovation Center, NPU-Chongqing, Chongqing, 401135, China

    JiChao Qiao

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51971178 and 52271153), the Natural Science Basic Research Plan for Distinguished Young Scholars in Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2021JC-12) and the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (Grant No. cstc2020jcyj-jqX0001). The investigation of LangTing ZHANG is sponsored by the Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation of Northwestern Polytechnical University (Grant No. CX2021015). YunJiang WANG was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12072344) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Yong YANG acknowledges financial support from Research Grant Council (RGC) and the Hong Kong government through the General Research Fund (GRF) (Grant Nos. U11200719 and U11213118).

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Zhang, L., Duan, Y., Wang, Y. et al. Tailoring the mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses via cooling from the supercooled liquid region. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 66, 173–180 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-022-2237-5

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