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Phase selection rule of high-entropy metallic glasses with different short-to-medium-range orders

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When an equiatomic multi-component alloy is quenched from its molten state down to room temperature, either a solid solution crystalline alloy or a metallic glass is formed. The former is called a high-entropy alloy, whereas the latter is referred as a high-entropy metallic glass (HE-MG). In such multicomponent alloys, thermodynamic parameters, e.g., the mixing entropy, the mixing enthalpy and other parameters such as atomic size mismatch, determine the resulting phases. In this work, we studied the phase selection rule applied to the equiatomic multicomponent Ti20Zr20Hf20Cu20Ni20 HE-MG from a structural perspective, by analyzing the short-to-medium-range orders. It was found that the short-range order in this MG resembles a body-centered cube structure, while the medium-range order is comprised of different orders. The experimental data suggest that different packing schemes, at the medium-range scale, play a critical role in the phase selection rule with regard to an amorphous phase or solid solution.

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当多组元合金从熔融态冷却到室温时, 往往形成固溶体合金或金属玻璃。前者被称为高熵合金(HEA), 后者被称为高熵金属玻璃(HE-MG)。在这种多组元合金中, 热力学参数如混合熵、混合焓, 及原子尺寸错配度等其他参数, 决定了最终凝固产物。本文从结构的角度出发, 通过分析短-中程序结构(S-MROs), 研究了等原子多组元Ti20Zr20Hf20Cu20Ni20 高熵金属玻璃的成相规律。研究发现, 该金属玻璃的短程序结构(SRO)类似于体心立方(bcc)结构, 而中程序(MRO)则由不同的排列规律构成。实验数据表明, 在中程序范围内, 不同的排列规律对非晶相或固溶体晶体相的选择规则起着至关重要的作用。

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021YFB3802800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51871120 and 51571170), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 30919011107 and 30919011404), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20200019) and Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program (No. JCYJ20200109105618137). Z.-D. Wu and S. Lan acknowledge the support by Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Neutron Scattering Science and Technology. X.-L. Wang acknowledges the support by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee (No. JCYJ20170413140446951) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2016YFA0401501). H. Hahn acknowledges the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (No.HA 1344/46-1). This research used the resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory (No. DE-AC02-06CH11357).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Nan**g University of Science and Technology, Nan**g, 210094, China

    Hui-Qiang Ying, Si-Nan Liu, Jia-Cheng Ge, Horst Hahn & Si Lan

  2. Center for Neutron Scattering and Applied Physics, City University of Hong Kong Dongguan Research Institute, Dongguan, 523000, China

    Zhen-Duo Wu

  3. Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China

    Wei-**a Dong & Xun-Li Wang

  4. Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, 76344, Germany

    Horst Hahn & Virgil Provenzano

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Ying, HQ., Liu, SN., Wu, ZD. et al. Phase selection rule of high-entropy metallic glasses with different short-to-medium-range orders. Rare Met. 41, 2021–2027 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-022-01973-8

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