Bulk Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys: Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanical Properties
This research community investigates the atomic structure, thermal stability, and mechanical behavior of metallic glasses and amorphous alloys, focusing on how these materials form, deform, and fail.
The work centers on Zr-based, Fe-based, and Cu-based systems, examining glass-forming ability, crystallization kinetics, and plastic deformation mechanisms. Recurring themes include the influence of structural relaxation on wear resistance, the development of metallic glass composites with dendritic phases, and the application of molecular dynamics and machine learning to predict composition and properties. Studies also address soft magnetic properties, corrosion resistance, and the decoupling of calorimetric and dynamical glass transitions in high-entropy systems.
The community’s output is most concentrated in Copper research, where it represents 0.1% of all tracked Copper studies, with 178 papers. Zirconium research also sees a 0.1% share (126 papers), while Iron research accounts for 111 papers.
The community comprises 2,870 papers, published primarily in the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS.
Recent work continues to explore the coupling of structure and relaxation in metallic glasses, the development of hard multicomponent alloys via machine learning, and the mechanical properties of Fe-based bulk metallic glasses produced by spark plasma sintering.