Fast coalescence of metallic glass nanoparticles

The coarsening of amorphous metallic nanoparticles remains poorly understood. Here, the authors combine high resolution microscopy and atomistic simulations to show the disordered structure of amorphous nanoparticles makes them coarsen faster than crystalline ones.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuan Tian, Wei Jiao, Pan Liu, Shuangxi Song, Zhen Lu, Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13054-z