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Spherical periodicity as structural homology of crystalline and amorphous states

晶态与非晶态结构的球周期同源性

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It has been widely accepted that spherical periodicity generally dominates liquid and amorphous structure formation, where atoms tend to gather near spherically periodic shells according to Friedel oscillation. Here we revealed that the same order is just hidden in the atomic global packing modes of the crystalline phases relevant to bulk metallic glasses. Among the nearest-neighbor clusters developed from all the non-equivalent atomic sites in a given phase, there always exists a principal a principal cluster, centered by which the spherical periodicity, both topologically and chemically, is the most distinct. Then the principal clusters plus specific glue atoms just constitute the cluster-plus-glue-atom structural units shared by both metallic glasses and the corresponding crystalline phases. It is further pointed out that the spherical periodicity order represents a common structural homology of crystalline and amorphous states in the medium-range through scrutinizing all binary bulk-glass-relevant phases in Cu-(Zr, Hf), Ni-(Nb, Ta), Al-Ca, and Pd-Si systems.

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球周期在液体与非晶的结构形成过程中占有主要地位, 根据Friedel振荡理论, 原子倾向于聚集在球周期壳层上. 本文提出在非晶晶体相结构中依然隐藏着球周期序列. 在一个给定的相中, 所有非等效原子占位皆衍生出相应的最近邻团簇, 其中必然存在一个具有代表性的主团簇, 以其为中心时, 球周期最明显. 该主团簇加上特定的连接原子组成了对应非晶态的团簇加连接原子结构单元. 本文通过全面分析Cu-(Zr, Hf), Ni-(Nb, Ta), Al-Ca与Pd-Si二元块体非晶形成体系中的晶化相, 进一步指出球周期序代表了晶态与非晶态在中程序的结构同源性.

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This work was supported by the Science Challenge Program (JCKY2016212A504) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11674045).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Dalian University of Technology (DUT)), Ministry of Education, Dalian, 116024, China

    Shuang Zhang  (张爽), Zijian Wang  (王子鉴) & Chuang Dong  (董闯)

  2. College of Physical Science and Technology, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, China

    Dandan Dong  (董丹丹)

  3. Physics Institute, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, 09107, Germany

    Peter Häussler

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Shuang Zhang is a PhD candidate majored in condensed matter physics at the School of Materials Science and Engineering in DUT. Her research interests include structural modeling of metallic glasses and solid solutions, composition design of alloys, structural origin of simple crystals, and structural homology between ordered and the corresponding disordered states.

Chuang Dong is a professor at the Key Laboratory of Materials Modification, DUT. He obtained his PhD degree in materials science in 1991 at INPL, France. He owned the titles of the Outstanding Young Researcher in 1995 and Changjiang Professor in 2005, respectively. His research interests include structural modeling of disordered materials, alloy design, and surface modification.

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Zhang, S., Dong, D., Wang, Z. et al. Spherical periodicity as structural homology of crystalline and amorphous states. Sci. China Mater. 61, 409–416 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-017-9161-4

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