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Formation of novel TRIP-ductilized bulk metallic glass composites by manipulating nucleation kinetics via minor alloying

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A series of conical bulk metallic glass composites (BMGCs) with compositions of Zr47Cu47−xAl5Ag1Gax (x = 0, 1, 2, 4; at%) were synthesized using the minor alloying method to investigate the effect of Ga addition on the glass-forming ability (GFA), microstructure uniformity and mechanical properties. The results showed that the addition of less than 2 at% Ga could effectively promote the base alloy’s GFA, and in turn, the critical forming diameters of the BMGCs which exhibited evenly distributed B2-CuZr spheroids embedded in the glass matrix. This is attributed to the increase in nucleation energy barrier owing to the minor Ga addition that reduces the thermodynamic driving force for the B2 formation, thus leading to reduced nucleation rates, smaller volume fractions of B2, and enlarged inter-spacings between B2 spheroids while suppressing the agglomeration of B2 spheroids in the BMGCs. As such, the 1 at% Ga addition was found to yield an optimal BMGC which possessed good compressive plasticity with a considerably large uniform deformation strain up to 8%. This study has important implications for designing novel BMGCs by manipulating the nucleation kinetics via minor alloying.

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本研究通过微合金化法制备了一系列成分为Zr47Cu47‒xAl5Ag1Gax (x=0, 1, 2, 4 at%)的圆锥形块体非晶复合材料，并研究了Ga的添加对合金非晶形成能力，组织均匀性及力学性能的影响。研究结果表明，小于2 at% Ga的添加可以有效地提高Zr47Cu47Al5Ag1合金的非晶形成能力，从而提高块体非晶复合材料的临界形成直径，该非晶复合材料的B2-CuZr晶球均匀地分布在非晶基体中。这是由于微量Ga的添加提高了形核能垒，降低了B2相形成的热力学驱动力，从而降低块体非晶复合材料中B2相的形核速率，减小B2相的体积分数，并增加B2晶球之间的间距，抑制B2晶球之间的粘连。研究表明，1 at% Ga的添加可以获得具有良好压缩塑性的非晶复合材料，其均匀的压缩应变高达8%。本研究对通过微合金化法调控形核动力学来设计新型块体非晶复合材料具有重要意义。

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Acknowledgements

This study was financially supported by the Open Research Fund of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (No. 2021SLABFN12), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Nos. 2020B1515120077, 2019A1515110472, 2020A1515110893 and 2020B1515120065), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52130108, 51971103, 52001184, and 52101200).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China

    Xi-Lai Jiang, Yuan-Bo Zhou & Sheng-Zhong Kou

  2. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100049, China

    Xi-Lai Jiang, Wen-Li Song, Yuan-Bo Zhou & Chun-Ming Hu

  3. Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan, 523803, China

    Xi-Lai Jiang, Wen-Li Song, Yuan-Bo Zhou & Chun-Ming Hu

  4. Neutron Science Platform, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, 523808, China

    Xi-Lai Jiang, Ming Yang, Yuan-Bo Zhou, Yan Huang, Zhi-Chao Lu, Yi-Bo Zhang, Jie Dong, Liang Wang, Bo Peng, Jin-Kui Zhao & Dong Ma

  5. State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

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  6. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100190, China

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Jiang, XL., Song, WL., Yang, M. et al. Formation of novel TRIP-ductilized bulk metallic glass composites by manipulating nucleation kinetics via minor alloying. Rare Met. 42, 2182–2188 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-022-02240-6

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