Revealing Glass Transition and Supercooled Liquid in Ni80P20 Metallic Glass

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2020.00379

Acta Metall Sin

2021, Vol. 57

Issue (4): 553-558 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2020.00379

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Revealing Glass Transition and Supercooled Liquid in Ni₈₀P₂₀ Metallic Glass

YANG Qun¹, PENG Sixu¹^,², BU Qingzhou¹, YU Haibin¹(

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^1.Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
^2.School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

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YANG Qun, PENG Sixu, BU Qingzhou, YU Haibin. Revealing Glass Transition and Supercooled Liquid in Ni₈₀P₂₀ Metallic Glass. Acta Metall Sin, 2021, 57(4): 553-558.

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Nickel-phosphorus metallic glass (MG) is one of the most typical MGs, and is also one of the most popular studied MG components, especially in the process of establishing the structure model of amorphous alloys and computer simulations. Although it appears throughout the history of amorphous alloy research, its glass transition temperature and liquid properties have not yet been determined due to its low ability to form glass. In this work, we bypassed the crystallization of Ni₈₀P₂₀ MG during the glass transition process by an ultrafast calorimeter with heating rates up to thousands of Kelvin per second and directly detected its glass transition process. This method offers an opportunity to expose the nature of the Ni₈₀P₂₀ MG supercooled liquid. The liquid fragility of the metallic glass Ni₈₀P₂₀ was determined by the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann equation based on the dependence of the glass transition temperature at different heating rates. The results show that the liquid fragility of Ni₈₀P₂₀ MG is 93 ± 4, which is obviously a very “fragile” liquid compared with other bulk MGs. It is suggested that this “fragile” liquid behavior of Ni₈₀P₂₀ MG may lead to its low glass-forming ability.

Key words: metallic glass ultrafast scanning calorimetry supercooled liquid fragility glass forming ability

Received: 21 September 2020

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Fund: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2018KFYXKJC009)

About author: YU Haibin, professor, Tel: 18086029416, E-mail: haibinyu@hust.edu.cn

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Fig.1 XRD spectrum of Ni₈₀P₂₀ metallic glass (MG) ribbon (a), and the comparison between the heat flow curves of FSC at high heating rate and DSC at low heating rate for Ni₈₀P₂₀ metallic glass (b) (T—temperature, Q—heating rate, T_g—glass transition temperature)

Fig.2 FSC heat flow curves (a) and phase diagram (b) of Ni₈₀P₂₀ metallic glass at different heating rates (SCL—supercooled liquid)

Fig.3 The crystallization Kissinger diagram of Ni₈₀P₂₀ metallic glasses in the heating rate range of DSC and FSC respectively (a), and the change of glass transition temperature at different heating rates and the fitting of VFT equation (b) (T_x—crystallization temperature, T_g20—extrapolated T_g at a heating rate of 20 K/min, m—fragility)

Fig.4 The specific heat capacity curve measured by a high temperature sensor (Inset is an enlarged view of the specific heat curve at the glass transition) (a), and the melting heat flow curve (b) of Ni₈₀P₂₀ metallic glass at a heating rate of 700 K/s (c_p—special heat capacity, ΔH_m—melting enthalpy, Δc_p—heat capacity step)

Fig.5 The non-linear relationship between the liquid fragility of metallic glass and the glass forming ability (d_max—critical effective diameter for a rod-like MG)

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