Yongqiang Cheng

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the tremendous efforts over the past 50 years devoted to unraveling the atomic-level structure of MGs and the structural origin of their unique behaviors.

TL;DR: A comprehensive and up-to-date review on the rapid progress achieved very recently on this subject can be found in this article, where key materials-science issues of general interest, including the initiation of shear localization starting from shear transformations, the temperature and velocity reached in the propagating or sliding band, the structural evolution inside the shear-band material, and the parameters that strongly influence shearbanding are discussed.

TL;DR: The atomic-level structure of a representative ternary Cu-Zr-Al bulk metallic glass (BMG) has been resolved and Cu- (and Al-) centered icosahedral clusters are identified as the basic local structural motifs.

TL;DR: It is found that with the compositional and structural changes, the optimal balance of magnetic, electrical, and mechanical properties is achieved at x = 0.2, for which the combination of saturation magnetization, coercivity, and resistivity makes the alloy an excellent SMM.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the phase transition was in fact first-order, although still very close to tricritical, according to the variation of the order parameter Q for this transition scaled with temperature T as Q ∼ (Tc−T)β.