Nanoglass and Nanocrystallization Reactions in Metallic Glasses

Superconductivity in Metallic Glasses

Cluster-assembled metallic glasses

A bottom-up approach to nanofabricate metallic glasses from metal clusters as building blocks is presented. Considering metallic glasses as a subclass of cluster-assembled materials, the relation between the two lively fields of metal clusters and metallic glasses is pointed out. Deposition of selected clusters or collections of them, generated by state-of-the-art cluster beam sources, could le...

Thermal rejuvenation in metallic glasses

Structural rejuvenation in metallic glasses by a thermal process (i.e. through recovery annealing) was investigated experimentally and theoretically for various alloy compositions. An increase in the potential energy, a decrease in the density, and a change in the local structure as well as mechanical softening were observed after thermal rejuvenation. Two parameters, one related to the anneali...

Metallic glasses: Family traits.

The disordered atomic structure of metallic glasses gives rise to unique mechanical and physical properties such as strength and elasticity, and are being considered for a wide range of applications. However, to understand and ultimately control these properties, it is important to study their disordered structure. Seen on the macroscale, metallic glasses are isotropic and homogeneous. On the m...

Metallic spin glasses

Recent work on the zero temperature phases and phase transitions of strongly random electronic system is reviewed. The transition between the spin glass and quantum paramagnet is examined, for both metallic and insulating systems. Insight gained from the solution of infinite range models leads to a quantum field theory for the transition between a metallic quantum paramagnetic and a metallic sp...