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A highly ordered non-crystalline metallic phase

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Gabrielle G. Long, Karena Chapman, Peter Chupas, Leonid A. Bendersky, Lyle E. Levine, Frederic Mompiou, John W. Cahn, Judith K. Stalick

Abstract

We report the characterization of an ordered non-crystalline isotropic metallic solid that, during rapid cooling of an Al-Fe-Si melt, forms by nucleation, followed by growth along a moving interface between the solid and melt with partitioning of the chemical elements. We determine experimentally that this is not a polycrystalline composite with nanometer sized grains, and conclude that this may be a new kind of structure: an atomically ordered, isotropic, non-crystalline solid, possessing no long-range translational symmetry.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
111
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

metallic glass, ordering, phase transformation, pair distribution function analysis, X-ray scattering, Al-Fe-Si
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Long, G. , Chapman, K. , Chupas, P. , Bendersky, L. , Levine, L. , Mompiou, F. , Cahn, J. and Stalick, J. (2013), A highly ordered non-crystalline metallic phase, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=912843 (Accessed October 18, 2025)

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Created July 5, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017
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